Re: 3.0.3 and 3.2 releasing

[Max Herrgard <herrgard@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 aug 2012, at 15.50, Sascha Wildner wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:53:33 +0200, John Marino <dragonflybsd@marino.st> wrote:
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>> I suspect there are still recent kernel changes that need to be backported to 3.0.3 before a release, specially this pmap/wirecount work which is ongoing.  What's the intent of tagging at there? to make a release at that point?
> 
> Justin wrote it:
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>> On 8/24/2012 03:53, Justin Sherrill wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> as several people have pointed out, it's overdue.
> 
> Our last release ISO (3.0.2) is now _5 months_ old and has all of the almost 100 issues listed in the tagging message. Just one example, no one can install DragonFly 3.0 on a >2TB disk using the installer. Even without installer, if the install goes to a AHCI attached disk (which are the majority, I suspect), it's limited to 2TB.
> 
> The point is (and it's been pointed out already AFAIR), minor releases are as good (or bad, if you will) as the previous minor release, but certainly not worse, as we just MFC bug fixes. So a large number of bugs fixed justifies rolling a new minor release. There are users which have a benefit from it (see >2TB disk issue).
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> Minor releases should be in regular intervals, if enough fixes have accumulated and they should not be blocked by any "show stopper" or "blocker" issues, as these issues are present in the previous minor release as well, so I don't see what's wrong with replacing an ISO that has bugs with a newer ISO that has fewer bugs (which is really all that we are arguing about here).
> 
> Can we please leave this "show stopping" to our major releases instead of bickering over the minor ones?

I agree here. We should put out a fresh minor release as soon as possible. A few fixes are better than none.

However, I do think the wire count panic should be fixed for next major release...


Max