Hi Jes, It's been a while since last mdadm release. Mdadm-4.2 release that was mentioned back in July does not happened yet. It's getting messy to manage mdadm across multiple distributions. Also, not all OSVs are willing to cherry-pick the patches, especially for stable project - like mdadm, so only critical bugfixes are landing in the distros. As a result - new OSes has various forks of mdadm-4.1 and the difference is growing with every backported patch. It leads us to situation where those forks may have own bugs, caused by many missing bugfixes or wrongly resolved merge conflicts. To be honest - it becomes more and more problematic for us to track all fixes in different supported distros. We are searching for solutions for those problems and we are counting on your support: Short term - is there any way that we can help you to release next version of mdadm soon? Long term - what do you think about smaller, more frequent releases of mdadm? Maybe twice a year is an option (similar to RedHat/Ubuntu schedule)? That would be better for us and for vendors. They will need to follow upstream instead resolving bugs reported by us or community. The benefits will be gained by everyone. User will get up-to-date software much faster, with minimal vendor input and modifications. Mdadm bugs will be predictable across distros. We could help with testing IMSM and basic functionality of native metadata. What are your thoughts? Regards, Mariusz
