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

[Peter Kjellerstedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org 
> [mailto:uclibc-bounces at uclibc.org] On Behalf Of Rob Landley
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 05:54
> To: Mike Frysinger
> Cc: uclibc at uclibc.org
> Subject: Re: uclibc tool chain installation problem
> 
> On Friday 17 March 2006 11:40 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 17 March 2006 23:19, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > (I'm deciding right now whether to modify the mdev code to
> > > work with uClibc 0.9.28 for Busybox's 1.1.1 release on 
> > > Tuesday.  It works fine with glibc, and with current 
> > > uClibc -svn, but not 0.9.28...)
> >
> > i wouldnt if i were you
> >
> > if you want it to work with 0.9.28, use this patch:
> >
http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/*checkout*/src/patchsets/uclibc/0.9.28/48_all_
uClibc-svn-getdents.patch?root=gentoo
> > -mike
> 
> That is not a patch to busybox that makes busybox mdev work 
> with the most current release version of uClibc.
> 
> I've noticed that the majority of people actually deploying 
> stuff on real hardware tend to like the ability to use release 
> versions of things, rather than random source control snapshots.  
> Perhaps I'm working from a nonrepresentative sample, but it's 
> been pretty darn consistent so far.
> 
> Rob

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. :( 

A release cycle of one to two months rather than once a year
would be much appreciated.  That way, if we incorporate a new
version and find some problems with it, we won't have to wait
a year to have them officially fixed...  

And no, using snapshots is really not an option, as it is much 
harder to relate to a snapshot when bug tracking.  It is much 
easier to say "we have a problem with 0.9.32" and have others 
relate to what we mean, than to say "we have a problem with 
the snapshot of 2010-03-21".

Also, with snapshots you never know if you accidentally pull
the sources in the middle of someone else's half finished 
changes.  This is unlikely to happen with official releases.

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

//Peter