hostap-1.0-rc3 update

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 06:16:11AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> Are these release candidates going to be formally released for testing or
> only tagged in git as development milestones?

In the past, I have not really seen any significant testing of
pre-release builds regardless of whether they have been just tags or
release tarballs and I'm not sure whether there would really expect
that to be any different now.

> Bjarke Istrup Pedersen asked the same question on the 02/02/2012 without
> answer and I think other distribution maintainers of hostap software could
> benefit to know also. For myself, I have to see how the hostap release fits
> into the Debian/Ubuntu cycle, and the lack of end user testing of release
> candidates make me a bit more nervous than usual.

The exact snapshot of the rc1 or rc2 have probably not received much end
user testing and I'm not really expecting any of these release
candidates really to get much such testing. However, various snapshots
from hostap.git over the last six months have been used in large numbers
of end user products, i.e., have went through release testing by
multiple companies and are in the hands of end users now. Sure, these
are not completely identical to what is in hostap-1.git at the moment,
but there are some very similar snapshots that have went through
significant testing.

What kind of criteria do you have for release testing for Debian/Ubuntu
purposes?

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA