Re: 1.99 Release freeze

[Navdeep Parhar]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Navdeep Parhar <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2010/9/20 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
>> Hello. A I announced before the release freeze happens at the end of
>> 20th September. Now it's 21st September 0:26 UTC and so I officially
>> announce main trunk as frozen.
>
> GRUB_CONTRIB does not appear to work any more.  What is the
> recommended way of building stuff in grub-extras for 1.99?

Never mind.  I missed the part about "Reenabling extras" later in your
email.  So for now there is no decent way to build grub-extras?

Navdeep


>> Only bugfixes and documentation updates
>> are to be done from now on to the trunk. Also patches that were approved
>> before freeze are still allowed in. According to my notes they are:
>> - "[PATCH] Handle partition devices without corresponding disk devices"
>> 09/10/2010 06:33 PM +0100
>> - "[PATCH] USB serial - missing configuration" 09/15/2010 07:58 AM +0200
>>
>> Also some of the improvements have a big importance/effort ratio so as
>> of exception they are allowed to go in:
>> - Detecting LVM/RAID without device.map.
>> - Compressing core on yeeloong
>> - Implementing new part of multiboot2 specification.
>> - Networking by Manoelo Rebelo Abranches.
>> - Writing embedding zone using Reed-Solomon.
>> - Using cache on yeeloong for videocard.
>> - Changing video IDs in linux loader.
>> - Reenabling extras
>>
>> I know this list is longer than it should be but unfortunately I
>> couldn't finish/review them in time.
>>
>> Further exceptions can be granted on case-by-case basis. And of course
>> the developpement in experimental can continue but I recommend everyone
>> to do testing and bug-hunting.
>>
>> I changed version to 1.99~beta0 but I don't do any upload because of
>> these missing parts and known bugs.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>>
>>
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