Dear David, in message <200904250555.17450.davi...@pacbell.net> you wrote: > > I think the questions on this topic reflect a reality that > such status updates aren't yet visible enough. (The original > question was generic, not ARM-specific.)
I'm not going to push this information down people's throats. I love living free. Those who want that information can pick it up, those who don't will not get bothered. Is it really too much to ask that people have a look at the U-Boot web page every now and then? Is it really so difficult to find our when the merge window ends? Just type "u-boot merge window" at google and click on the very first link. > > Maybe I pout a little more meaning in the words "release candiate". > > ISTR that Linus has said on occasion that "RC" doesn't > mean "release candidate"! He. This is his interpretation, then. I take the freedom to use a different one :-) > You're not actually running the "merge window" quite like > Linux does; that "backlog" is one differentiator. Well, yes, I know. The tiome when I get the pull requests from the custodians is another one - being a major contribution to the former. > > That's why we still have no "rc" in the current release cycle. > > May be worth reconsidering that, if for no other reason than > to make intermedite milestones less opaque ... example, there > was no suitably titled announcement in the list archives that > the 2009.05 release got re-labeled, but I did eventually find > > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2009-April/050339.html Yes, that was when we discussed the change. I edited the web page within the same hour, IIRC. > When the RC label just means "we only integrate bugfixes now", > that communicates such status with very little work. If folk > miss some webpage, or mailing list post, they'll still know. Please allow me to stick with RC = release candidate, i. e. something that is at least reasonably compile tested and has at least the majority of patches included. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two. - Seneca _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
