Dear David,
in message 200904250555.17450.david-b@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
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