Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH 00/39] Reimplement backup-files in bash

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday 15 September 2011 15:15:37 Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Raphael,
> 
> On Thursday 16 June 2011 10:26:47 am Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > And it would be nice to have a new quilt release with this code.
> 
> You're preaching the choir here. The lack of release is actually what 
> prevented me from committing my changes. It is a large and intrusive 
> change, no matter how much care I put in it and how much testing I gave 
> it. Unfortunately, with no release in 2.5 years, it's pretty clear that 
> most distributions are packing development repository snapshots and not 
> version 0.48. So many users are likely to receive my commits very 
> quickly. I'm not sure if we want this.

I'm not sure if any distros would want to switch to a "released" version.

> Andreas, do you have a release schedule for quilt? I think a new version 
> is long overdue.

I don't.  Are you or Martin interested in making a release?

> Once we have a new release, I'll be happy to commit my work.

Alright.

Thanks,
Andreas