New Maintainers and Release Plans?

New Maintainers and Release Plans?

[Steve Kenton]

Congratulations to the new maintainers!

It's been 4 years since 2.0 was released and packages such as buildroot 
(which I use) generally include "official" releases which has me 
wondering about release plans.  And from a personal point of view 
whether my "add --partuuid to probe" patch would be considered for it 
:-) since Nick Vinson understandably wants to know if it is acceptable 
before possibly changing his "Add PARTUUID detection support to 
grub-probe" patch set to use it.

So, Wazzup with that?

Steve Kenton

Re: New Maintainers and Release Plans?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

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We're actively working on merging outstanding bug fixes.
We're specifically not adding any new features before release unless there
is a very good reason. The features can go into next branch but are not a
priority

Le sam. 20 août 2016 16:55, Steve Kenton <skenton@ou.edu> a écrit :

> Congratulations to the new maintainers!
>
> It's been 4 years since 2.0 was released and packages such as buildroot
> (which I use) generally include "official" releases which has me
> wondering about release plans.  And from a personal point of view
> whether my "add --partuuid to probe" patch would be considered for it
> :-) since Nick Vinson understandably wants to know if it is acceptable
> before possibly changing his "Add PARTUUID detection support to
> grub-probe" patch set to use it.
>
> So, Wazzup with that?
>
> Steve Kenton
>
>
>
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Re: New Maintainers and Release Plans?

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

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Long release cycle is an accident, not a norm. We will discuss with 4
maintainers what's the target release cycle will be

Le dim. 21 août 2016 21:14, Steve Kenton <skenton@ou.edu> a écrit :

>  >>>We're actively working on merging outstanding bug fixes.
>
>  >>>We're specifically not adding any new features before release unless
> there is a very good reason
>
>  >>>The features can go into next branch but are not a priority
>
> <snip>
>
> OK, fair enough although I think It could be argued that with MBR fading
> away due to drives over 2TB and the corresponding increase in the use of
> GPT labels that something as small and self contained as probe command
> PARTUUID support might be "a good reason", especially given Grub's long
> release cycles.
>
> Your call of course,
>
> Steve Kenton
>
>
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Re: New Maintainers and Release Plans?

[Steve Kenton]

 >>>We're actively working on merging outstanding bug fixes.

 >>>We're specifically not adding any new features before release unless 
there is a very good reason

 >>>The features can go into next branch but are not a priority

<snip>

OK, fair enough although I think It could be argued that with MBR fading 
away due to drives over 2TB and the corresponding increase in the use of 
GPT labels that something as small and self contained as probe command 
PARTUUID support might be "a good reason", especially given Grub's long 
release cycles.

Your call of course,

Steve Kenton