[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt 19.01 plans

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 09/23/2018 08:20 PM, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:43 PM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We talked about plans for the next OpenWrt releases in this mail thread:
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-adm/2018-July/000849.html
>> This mail is more or less a summary of the conclusions, this is still
>> open for change especially the dates as this depends on people having
>> time to do the work.
>>
>> The next release, lets call it OpenWrt 19.01, should happen in January
>> 2019, we would branch off from master in December 2018. This is the
>> current plan, but based on past experience it could also happen later.
>>
>> OpenWrt 19.01 will ship with kernel 4.14 only, we encourage everyone to
>> update the targets to kernel 4.14, support for kernel 4.19 will probably
>> be added to OpenWrt master soon, but we will not select it as the
>> default kernel for any target till OpenWrt 19.01 is branched off, to get
>> more testing on 4.14. The release after 19.01, which should happen in
>> late summer 2019, should then use kernel 4.19 only.
>>
>> For OpenWrt 19.01 GCC will stay on the 7.X branch, binutils and musl
>> already got some upgrades after the 18.06 release and could get some
>> more updates.
> Speaking of which, I request that at least these be merged:
> 
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6995
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6886
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6879
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6872
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6367
> 
> These are mainly compilation fixes as well as some usability ones (The
> last is needed for LVM2 and fio to work properly).
> 
> There are over 200 pull requests in the packages repository that
> should be ironed out before the release.

I think we have there a problem again.
I have to admit that I do not look to often at the package feed and hope
that someone else takes care. The biggest problem seams to be inactive
maintainers, I think if a maintainer does not react in 3 weeks anyone
can overrule him.

There are also many pull requests where someone requested some changes
and then nothing happens, we should probably close then after some weeks.

Hauke

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