On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:46:37PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 05:05:37PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > The current git head should be completely fine for production usage - > > there's not really anything complicated enough (save the udev stuff, > > maybe) to merit tagging a specific version as stable. I suppose > > distributions could use some kind of hint that useful changes have gone > > in and they should package a new version - anything in particular you > > want there? > > No, it's just that my distribution, Gentoo, only has the option of a > stale snapshot from months ago or a live build that just pulls git head. > In general, I just like stable software to have tagged releases, so > distributions can ship the same stuff. The maintainer of mcelog, for > example, doesn't tag releases, and expects distributions to just grab > whatever's there the day they package, so there's really no continuity > between distributions as far as what you end up with. There doesn't even > need to be a tarball packaged or anything, just a simple tag in git > identifying a "release" so distributions can package it. Heh, I see. Ok, I'll tag a release :p (there really should be some standardized announce mechanism/channel from packages -> distros. hrm). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
