Jo-Philipp Wich <j...@mein.io> writes: >> Is there any kind of "official" roadmap/checklist available what "needs" >> to be done? > > not that I am aware of, but from the top of my head: > > - make sure all targets are ported properly to 4.14 > - disable all devices which cannot cannot handle the increased kernel > size anymore > - drop all targets which are not ported to 4.14 > - fix important open issues in the tracker
Apologies if this is out of line... I just fealt the urge to post my personal opinion, FWIW. It seems to me that you are setting way too high standards for yourselves. From my point of view, the OpenWrt master branch is almost always in a releasable state. The OpenWrt development and review process ensures an extremely high quality, even for targets which are considered WiP. There are very few days over the last 6 months where you could not have decided to cut a release branch, and got away with it. It's something to be proud of! But you need to tell the rest of the world that you are proud of this by making releases. You should accept that the targets which are ported properly to 4.14 defines "all targets" for the next release. It's not the other way round. Any remaining targets which can be expected to be ported to 4.14 or later, if any, can and should be deferred for a later release. Note that accepting this means that there could be a "next release" in 2019 too... You should also accept that there will be unfixed important open issues at all times. You can't fix them all. To make a release, these issues will either have to be - ignored for that release, - demoted to less important. or - removed by removing the feature/target/whatever is affected by the issue from the release Look at the Debian "release critical" bug handling. It's not really about fixing all the RC bugs, but dealing with them. I realize that actually making a release is real work too, and that this has to take some time after making the initial cut. But delaying the cut for the master branch to get in an even "more ready" state is not really helping... Just my .021 € (considering inflation) Bjørn _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
