[oe] [OE-core] Feature Developement vs. Stablisation and Bug fixing

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 14:52 +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On 12.09.2012 13:15, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know in the past this has taken some people by surprise. Both OE-Core
> > and the Yocto Project are aiming at release points every six months,
> > roughly October and April. In order to prepare for those there is a
> > period of 6-8 weeks beforehand which is aimed at stabilisation and bug
> > fixing.
> >
> > We are now entering that window where we need to heavily taper off new
> > features and concentrate on the quality and stability of the release
> > which is scheduled for mid October. I'm not saying no new feature
> > patches will get taken but I will be asking questions like "why is this
> > being worked on?" and "shouldn't this wait until after release?". I'd
> > really like to see effort being focused on bugs now, not enhancements.
> >
> > I know there are a couple of things which have been worked on for a
> > while and have been slightly delayed which I'd probably lean towards
> > taking (some offline postinstall work spring to mind). I was asked
> > whether I'd take a binutils update in a couple of weeks and the answer
> > is no, I'd very likely not as we're at the point we need to lock in on
> > the toolchain now (and major kernel version).
> >
> > Does anyone have any questions?
> >
> 
> do you expect to have a filed bug in Yocto's bugzilla to attract attention
> to a problem, or published patchset with problem description and a fix is
> sufficient?

It doesn't have to have a bug number to be a fix to a valid problem so
as long as the problem is described in the patchset, that should be ok.

Cheers,

Richard