Hi Hans, On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:12:13 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > I'm wondering when are libsensors-3.x alpha / beta releases planned? I'm > tending towards not adding support for the abituguru3 and the f71882fg to > lm_sensors-2.10.x because 3.x will hopefully soon be available and I can spend > my time only once. OTOH, the 2.10.x line may continue to exist and be used for > a while so it might be a good idea to add support there too, what do you guys > think? This is a very valid question. The problem is that there is no release date planned for 3.x. Originally, Mark wanted to release it on July 2007, i.e. now... and as you can see it didn't happen. I changed the milestone to September 2007 in trac, but the truth is, I simply don't know if I'll be able to put enough time into libsensors by then to make it really happen. There's still a lot to do, despite the fact that things look good from the outside, and seem to work. I want us to review the library interface entirely, killing what's not needed, and reworking what needs to be. As we're going for a new major .so number, we really need to start from a clean design, not quickly adjusted code based on the old library. I am not interested in making formal alpha releases. People can pick from SVN anytime if they want to. I am not too interested in numbered beta releases either. I'd rather generate nightly snapshots as we do for the other branches, once we feel it's time to do so. 2.10.4 will be released very soon. And after that I think we'll have at least 2.10.5 before the 2.x branch can go to sleep. And distributions need time before they switch to a new branch of a product. So I don't think you can spare the time needed to add support for your chips to the 2.10.x branch, unless you don't want distribution users to use your drivers before another 6 months, at best. Only after 3.x is released, we can stop adding support for new chips in 2.x, methinks. Not to say that you shouldn't ask your testers to try branch 3.x now as well, just to make sure it works as intended - but that's not what regular users will have in their distributions before a while. -- Jean Delvare
