Hi,
At Plumber's we discussed the ALSA release cycle. Our releases recently have been irregular, and the reasoning behind why a release was done at that time, has not been very obvious.
IIRC, we kind of leaned towards releasing every six months. I don't remember if there was any consensus about whether to try to align this cycle to something else (e g Gnome, KDE, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), or not.
We also said that we should discuss this on the mailinglist as the ALSA release manager (Jaroslav Kysela) was not present during Plumber's. So this effectively is a mail to kick off that discussion. Any opinions?
Also, as a side note (or perhaps proof of the problem!), it seems ALSA 1.0.26 was just released without even a notification on this mailinglist...?