[LEDE-DEV] 18.06 Status?

[Hannu Nyman]

I think that the main source tree is in pretty good shape, so branching off 
the 18.0X rather soon might make sense.

There is alweays the next new exiting feature to be included in, but if the 
intention is still to make several major releases per year, the next feature 
will get into the next release rather soon.

So little stuff gets backported to 17.01, that a possible 17.01.5 would be 
just a quick temporary fix, not a proper solution. jow was talking about that 
ealier, and a 17.01.5 might be ok as a stopgap or "safe upgrade" from 17.01.x.

If 17.01.5 is really made, at least the mvebu mwlwifi driver should be 
updated first. 17.01 still has the ancient June 2017 version of mwlwifi 
driver, while master was recently upgrdaed to 2018-03-30 that is likely the 
best driver version so far.



Jaap Buurman kirjoitti 1.5.2018 klo 16:44:
> Dear all,
>
> If a 18.06 release is still going to require quite a bit of work, I
> propose we should look at another 17.01 point release. That should be
> a nice stopgap in the form of bug fixes for people that are still
> running a stable release. 17.01.4 is getting ancient to be honest.
> What do you think?
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Jaap Buurman
>
> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 2:53 PM, Rich Brown <richb.hanover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> It has been exactly a month since Hauke sent his note recommending a release process for the next OpenWrt stable. http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/lede-dev/2018-April/011704.html I have not seen any further discussion of this proposal.
>>
>> Given that the OpenWrt/LEDE merger was founded on the desire to improve communication, I am concerned that we're not talking to each other about important questions.
>>
>> It would be OK if we all agreed that we have too many pieces in flux to talk about a stable release. But I don't think it's too soon to talk about pausing the project evolution briefly and making the hard decisions about what's in, what's out. Then most people (who're unwilling to run a snapshot) can get the benefit of all your effort over the last year.
>>
>> Thanks for listening,
>>
>> Rich