Re: [avrdude-dev] Release schedule?

[Jan-Hinnerk Reichert]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 05:33, E. Weddington wrote:
> On 13 Dec 2003 at 21:36, Jan-Hinnerk Reichert wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 December 2003 23:37, E. Weddington wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I was wondering, can we do a release of avrdude within the next
> > > 2 weeks? I'm planning a release of WinAVR about Dec. 22. I know
> > > Ted's busy with the other open source AVR projects, so I'm ok
> > > with say the week of the 15th. Any thoughts?
> >
> > What shall we do about this?
> > - Will you cancel the Christmas-release of WinAVR?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. BTW, the proposed date of the WinAVR release
> was to coincide with the Winter Solstice (with apologies to users
> in the southern hemisphere :-)), not just for Christmas. ;-)
>
> > - Do you take latest CVS of avrdude?
> > - Should we patch together a version without CVS?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean here. I originally requested a release
> of avrdude due to a WinAVR release. However, Brian was also
> interested in release (IIRC) just because of the number of new
> things. IMHO, an avrdude release is and should be relatively
> independent of a WinAVR release.

I just thought that we have enough new features to do a release (even 
without autodetection). And I believe that most of the Windows-folk 
that is using avrdude won't compile the latest cvs ;-)

BTW: Has anyone numbers on avrdude-usage?

> > I have the following pending changes:
> > - "baudrate"-patch
> > - update the configuration section of manual (not writen, yet)
> > - "cycle-count"-patch
> > - TODO-cleanup ;-)
> >
> > What should go in?
>
> Whatever the admins think would be best. :-)

Well, everything, of course.

/Jan-Hinnerk