[alsa-devel] Scheduled alsa-lib release?

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 08:47:09 +0100,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Mar 9 2016 15:17, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2016 07:16:24 +0100,
> > Vinod Koul wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:49:19PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> in the previous meeting, there have been requests about the regular
> >>> "predictable" release of alsa-lib.  We thought of aligning with kernel
> >>> release cycle, judging from the nature of alsa-lib.
> 
> As a quick glance of the number of commits per month (see in the end of 
> this message), alsa-lib is not so actively developed recently. (except 
> for topology APIs)
> 
> I think releasing every 2 months makes the release maintenance effort 
> more hard than its actual advantage. It better to release alsa-lib for 2 
> or more kernel release cycles.

Yes, that was the proposal in the meeting.  It wasn't meant to release
every cycle.

The point is to align with the kernel release cycle so that people can
know the possible release point beforehand.  The actual release can be
skipped easily if nothing happens, of course.


Takashi