Doing a release?

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Dec 6 18:10:54 UTC 2013


Hello all,

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:57:09 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:49:44 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> > Dear uClibc developers,
> > 
> > The last release of uClibc, 0.9.33.2, has been made well over a year
> > ago. However, there is fairly big number of improvements/fixes in the
> > master branch that would be interesting to have in a release. At the
> > Buildroot level, we now have 53 patches in your patch stack against
> > uClibc 0.9.33.2, all coming from the master branch if I'm correct (see
> > http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/tree/package/uclibc/0.9.33.2).
> > 
> > It'd be really nice if uClibc adopted a slightly more frequent release
> > schedule, to more easily allow downstream users to benefit from
> > improvements/fixes.
> 
> Approximately 1.5 months after my initial e-mail, nothing seems to have
> happened on the front of getting a release out.

Another month since this ping, 2.5 months since the original proposal,
and still no movement towards even a release candidate for 0.9.34.

What can be done to make things move forward?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com


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