Re: The state of DragonFly and pkgsrc 2008Q4

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hasso Tepper schrieb:
> We have no resources for such tests and to fix things constantly ;). What 
> I'd like to see though is kind of userspace API/ABI freeze. Not really 
> hard freeze, but no such changes as introducing the reentrant functions 
> was, no messing with hiding/disclosing stuff in headers (a la "hey, make 
> it more standard compilant"), no "sync library libx with xBSD" commits 
> etc, please.

Avoiding these types of commits in the proposed timeframe seems like a 
good idea to me. If anyone really ever has something that _must_ go in 
during that time, there's still the possibility of checking against a 
pkgsrc build before committing.

> We target our releases to end of January and to end of July. Q2 is 
> released in the end of June and Q4 is released in the end of December. I 
> think that it's reasonable to have soft API/ABI freeze two months before 
> DragonFly release? It would leave a month to fix problems in pkgsrc.

Sascha

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