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

[Martin Quinson]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 04:19:49PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 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.

In debian, we are not packaging a git snapshot, and resync with you
guys only on release points. We almost never cherry pick commits from
your git, unless when they actually fix a bug reported by our users.

In that sens, I'd be more than interested in a new release. Actually,
my plan was to push all the trivial patches that we have, and possibly
some non-trivial patches, and after that see if we can get a release
out. 

I'd prefer to push all these trivia before the release because it'll
ease the merge afterward.

> > 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?

You mean tag the git, build an archive and push it to savannah or
something more profund? If I still have my savannah credentials, I may
try to do it.

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

Integrating Jean's work is also something I'd love. His work is far
better than what we have in Debian, but I already have issues tracking
upstream given the amount of patches that we have here, I don't feel
like tracking 2 separate upstreams ;)

I guess that a big part of the issue is that I don't use quilt myself
on my day to day work, so I easily get rotten about it. Moreover, I
feel very limited about my bash scripting skills, and I definitely
don't want to take any [big] responsability in changing the code. 

Bye, Mt.

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