Re: Bugfix release(s)

On 1/14/19 3:48 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

On Mo, 14.01.19 08:43, Dave Reisner (d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:59:06AM +0100, Jan Synacek wrote:

Hi,

since v240 didn't go too well, I would like to suggest that the next one
(preferably two) release(s) are bugfix only. Please, consider it.

systemd needs better release hygiene, not just a smattering of bugfix
releases. As a rolling release distro, we regularly find release-day
blockers. That's bad for everyone. v240 was particularly bad as 6 months
had elapsed since v239 (and over 3100 commits). That's the longest
timespan and most commits in any systemd release in its nearly 9 year
history.

Well, that sounds as if you want to volunteer as release engineer? ;-)

Thing is, we are understaffed. I too have a wishlist of things I'd
like to see done, but with only two paid full-time upstream engineers
there's only so much we can do.

Interesting what has happened to the rest?

Sometimes helps also just to reach out if things are getting to understaffed/overwhelmed.

I'm pretty sure that those of us that partook in this journey from the get go are still here in one form or another.

If you (or anyone else in the community) would like to step up and
maybe take a position of release engineer, working towards a clearer
release cadence I think everybody would love you for that! I know I
certainly would.

But additional work is not going to be done without anyone doing it.

I would not mind partaking in such collaborated effort and at the same time suggest that systemd adapts the upstream kernel release model and ties it's upstream release cycle as close to the upstream kernel releases as in one major release per kernel's development cycle release no later then .rc7 with some middle ground fit's the project to quiet down for that release.

With a long term goal here for the linux ecosystem being able to reach a state in which every component that makes up the core/baseOS image ( getting system to boot and run ) and run on for whatever purpose can be released as an single updated image for downstream to consume as an update for their devices/distros and what not thou others opinions might differ in that regard.

JBG