Long release cycle (was: RE: uclibc tool chain installation problem)

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Mar 21 08:00:03 PST 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 4:17 am, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> Well, the extremely long release cycle of uClibc is definitely
> a problem.  We are currently stuck at 0.9.27 as 0.9.28 does not
> work for us.  The code in svn works, but as there is no new
> release in sight, we have to wait to upgrade. :(

I'm going to start pestering them about it as soon as I get busybox 1.1.1 out.  
Should be today, if I can finish my passwd.c changes and get solar to review 
it.

> A release cycle of one to two months rather than once a year
> would be much appreciated.

Busybox is aiming for every 3.  No guarantee we'll hit it, but that's what 
we're trying for. :)

> So please, with sugar on top, could we try to increase the rate
> of uClibc releases?

The traditional thing to do is send Erik Andersen a cake.  His mailing address 
is in his resume on codepoet.org.  (You'll have to check the archives to find 
out why this is a tradition, of course.)

> //Peter

Rob
-- 
Never bet against the cheap plastic solution.


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