Re: coreutils release plans

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 03/03/2014 10:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> So coreutils-8.23 is shaping up to be a bug fix release
> which I hope could be released within 3-4 weeks.
> There are a few outstanding items including various df fixes
> and sort multithreaded fixups to include. We should concentrate
> on any of the outstanding non feature bugs in this time.

I'm not aware of a sort issue - what do you refer to here?

> After that the ground would be clear for a more
> invasive update to add prelim multibyte support
> and also the unified join/uniq/sort key selection.

Hooray! The idea of throwing away (parts of) that huge and ugly
downstream I18N patch saves my day. ;-)

> So I'm thinking:
>
> 4 weeks:  8.23 bugfix stable
> 10 weeks: 9.0  feature unstable
> 14 weeks: 9.1  bugfix stable
>
> thoughts?

We'll need much test cases for the I18N support. In the downstream
patches, there are only a few ones, and some of them are even
skipped because they'd sometimes fail.

Have a nice day,
Berny