On 09/07/2012 01:58 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
On 07.09.2012 13:38, David Henningsson wrote:
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.
... or the kernel? At least for the kernel parts of ALSA, syncing an ALSA version to kernel version would automatically tell us which patches will make it into a new release. Plus, it would also be easier to compare feature sets (something like "ALSA 1.0.26 gives us what we have in kernel 3.6").
Would that be feasible or am I missing something?
I took that up as an alternative. I think more people leaned towards six month cycles, but it's still an open question.
To me, I also think aligning releases to the kernel makes sense, but it'll also mean a lot of releases with little change in, so maybe six month cycles are better for that reason.