Hello On 01/29/2014 02:40 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi All, > > Just now we were discussing that fedora kexec-tools should rebase to > upstream kexec-tools every release so that we can test the latest code > sooner. > > Then Dave Young pulled in some data about the kexec-tools release > duration. > > Date: Tue Mar 19 10:46:46 2013 +0900 > kexec-tools 2.0.4 ~100 commits > > Date: Mon Jan 16 09:15:25 2012 +1100 > kexec-tools 2.0.3 ~100 commits > > Date: Thu Jul 29 13:40:00 2010 +0900 > kexec-tools 2.0.2 ~80 commits > > Date: Thu Aug 13 09:28:08 2009 +1000 > kexec-tools 2.0.1 ~60 commits > > Date: Sat Jul 19 10:31:30 2008 +1000 > kexec-tools 2.0.0 > > So that is 5 release in 5.5 years. It is roughly 1 release per year. > > I am wondering if there is any interest in more frequent releases of > kexec-tools. Say every 3 months or every 6 months. > > IMHO, it might be better if there are more frequent release of kexec-tools > (say a release every 6 months) and then every 6 months distributions > should be able to rebase to that new release. > > Thoughts? Agreed. Sometimes, important changes in the kernel side will lead to the change in the kexec-tools, so especially in this case, I think it might be better to release a new version asap. > > Thanks > Vivek > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec > -- Thanks. Zhang Yanfei
