[RFC] Unscheduled Software Release for SD Card Corruption Workaround

[Kim Quirk]

Deepak,
I think you should feel free to release information and kernel rpms to the
devel list, pretty much whenever you want since you (or others) can answer
questions and help people who want to try this out. I would consider this as
'developer testing' -- which is great and shouldn't get bogged down in too
much process.

The benefit of going through a 'release process', in general, is to get the
feature or bug fix out to the general public, documented (and supportable),
after a more formal QA process. After you are happy with the developer
testing, if there is a big enough demand in the general public we can go
through the unscheduled release process to get a formal build, testing, and
release (8.1.1). If the demand isn't too large and the timing is such that
we are pretty close to 8.2.0 release, then we should target it for that
release.

Kim

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Jun 25 2008, at 00:04, Kim Quirk was caught saying:
> > Thanks Deepak.
> > I'd love to see the SD card corruption fixed, but we are just about
> finished
> > with testing and are now in the release process for 8.1.1... so i
> recommend
> > that we schedule this fix for the 8.1.2 release (if we do this release)
> and
> > make sure it gets into 8.2.0, which might be the next release we get out
> the
> > door.
>
> Ah, I didn't fully grok our release schedule and thought 8.1.1 was already
> out the door.
>
> > Other thoughts?
>
> Eric and I talked about this a bit yesterday and we thought that doing
> a full USR is probably not needed. What we're looking at doing to help
> the G1G1 users who are impacted by this is to spin a kernel RPM and
> initrd that they can install.
>
> ~Deepak
>
> --
> Deepak Saxena <dsaxena at laptop.org>
>
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