Dear Robert,
in message 20030914215029.GB17921@pengutronix.de you wrote:
Wolfgang, could you make an announcement from time to time on this list when you make a release? I noticed it almost by accident recently.
Releases, i. e. increments of X or Y in the U-Boot-X_Y_Z CVS tags, have always been announced here, and will be. The "minor" releases on our FTP server are merely snapshots to help work around the access and delay problems to SF's CVS server.
I think there is two groups of people on this mailing list: users and developers. For users, the "major releases" are perfectly OK to use. Developers usually can use the top-of-tree version from CVS. Except for a very few cases I always run a certain set of tests before ever checking in code to the public CVS server. This is good enough for 99% of all developers. If you feel unsafe with that, you can use a tagged version; if you need even more reliability you can use one of the "minor releases" tagged as U-Boot-X_Y_Z (with snapshots on our FTP server).
If you're interested in the development, watch the CVS. I don't intend to announce each and every check-in. If you like, you can, for example, "cvs watch add CHANGELOG".
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk