On 1/27/21 6:39 AM, Tkaczyk, Mariusz wrote: > 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. Hi Mariusz, Sorry for the slow response. Our daughter was born in late December and I was on paternity leave through Feb 5, so still catching up. I also switched teams at work back in July so my focus was shifted. I'd very much like to see a release, and we should do one quick. Doing more regular releases will also make it easier to ship them, so I am not against that at all. I am not aware of anything major pending right now, so if we can get focus on any pending patches and get them in over the next week or two, then I can cut an -rc and we can do a release soon. Especially if you can help out regression testing the -rc candidate(s). Cheers, Jes
