Re: release planning

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Jul 17, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> If there is no objection, I'd like to release the first version of 
> GRUB 2 for
> developers at the beginning of August, whatever status it is in. At the
> moment, I'm devoting myself into bugfixes and incorporation of 
> workarounds
> from GRUB Legacy. I'm also going to implement a simple installer for
> GNU/Linux within this month.

Great!

> After that, I'd like to keep releasing new versions constantly. 
> Hopefully, one
> per two or three months. The version numbers will be 1.9x, until we 
> make GRUB
> 2 stable enough on PC.

For me, for PowerPC, the question has been first "can we replace 
current bootloaders?" and second "what features can we add to compel 
people to switch?" I think releasing GRUB2 without all the features of 
GRUB 0.9x would be a tough sell... but of course, I'm talking about end 
users here. Developers and early adopters may find it interesting 
enough even in its current state.

-Hollis