On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 09:46:33AM -0700, Khalid Aziz wrote: > On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 13:40 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any interest in more frequent releases of > > kexec-tools. Say every 3 months or every 6 months. > > Yes, that will be good. I maintain the kexec-tools package for Debian > and I often find myself backporting fixes from git into Debian package > as users find bugs that are already fixed in upstream. Being able to > update the entire package to new release with all accumulated bugfixes > periodically will be helpful. Agreed. If we have more frequent releases of kexec-tools, then distributions can easily rebase to newer releases more frequently and that will reduce the overhead of cherry-picking and backporting fixes. Also it allows distribution users to test new features sooner. For example, kexec support on EFI systems. In worst case, a distribution user will have to wait for an year or more before a release happens and user can test this feature. And this is true for any feature which is introduced in kexec-tools. Thanks Vivek
