[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Anastasia, On 16.10.22 23:41, Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > Nico what was the goal why you started this thread? I wanted to evaluate how immediate a release is. Also, maybe subconsciously (on my end), to raise awareness among developers that we want to do releases. I learned some new things bet

[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Richard Hughes
Hi all, Perhaps a way forward would be to tag a rc release, ask distributors to package and test it (e.g. pushing to Fedora Rawhide, but not Fedora 36), and then push the actual official release a week or two later? Certainly aiming to do releases monthly is much healthier than doing releases eve

[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Edward O'Callaghan via flashrom
I very much like Richard's pragmatic approach here. It would be my view that we should re-evaluate branch critical bugs (sb600spi map issue + build system stuff are the two the most prominent in my mind at the moment) and just cut a release branch, stabilise that with some cherry-picks of any resi

[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Richard Hughes
If it helps, a monthly release seems to be the sweet spot for fwupd, from a "writing release notes" and "getting fixes into users hands" point of view. There's no point having a "no regressions" rule as this is software, and even the most benign of changes can have some unknown side effect -- it's

[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Angel Pons
Hi list, We (Angel) sense that this thread might potentially drift towards an unpleasant direction and we think the outcome wouldn't be forward-useful, i.e. it would make things worse. How are all of you doing? Is anyone feeling hurt? On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 11:53 AM Nico Huber wrote: > > Hi all

[flashrom] Re: master state / potential release

2022-10-17 Thread Angel Pons
Hi all (again), We (Angel) just took the time to reorder the previous replies so that we can respond to them in-line. On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 11:34 AM Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 12:24, Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 20:27, Richard Hughes wrote: >