Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/22/06 15:20 CST: > On 9/22/06, Steffen Ungruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But now, 7 weeks after the LFS 6.2 release, I'll have to ask the question >> you'll all probably don't want to hear: When will BLFS 6.2 be released? >> Right now there are still 94 open tickets. Whould you consider the current >> SVN to be "stable"? Are you just doing a freeze and call it 6.2? > > When it will be released, I can't say.
It will be soon. I will be attempting to contact the individual BLFS Editors to see what they would like to contribute in the next 5 weeks. Their replies (and don't wait for me to contact you if you read this), should be posted here so that the community can see what is slated for completion, and what is not. This way, suggestions and contributions from non-Editor community members won't conflict with previously stated goals from others. As always, check out the Trac Bug database to see what is already in queue and who may be working on it: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/report/1?sort=ticket&asc=1 Just because an Editor flagged himself as the owner of a bug, don't let that stop you from contacting him and telling him you'd like to take in on yourself. At this stage of the BLFS life cycle, I can't imagine any reasonable request and/or contribution being turned down. We need all the help we can get. :-) What is this "suggestions and contributions" mentioned above? Anything submitted to this mailing list will be considered. Text mods, technical changes, complete package updates to the Book's XML, etc., will be considered (and probably used) for inclusion in the book. Now is your chance to contribute stuff that matters. Your contribution to the book will be annotated in the Credits and it's very likely you will be recruited to continue your efforts with write privileges to the SVN repository. Planned release of BLFS 6.2 will be the end of October. And if one were to want to 'name' the release, well, "Halloween Documents" (or anything related to 'Halloween') is already spoken for! :-) re: http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ > I consider what's in SVN to be > stable. Any package updates that go in will have to be pretty safe. > There aren't going to be any major upgrades between now and then, I > don't think. But we can't just freeze right now. There are a lot of > things in the book that really need to be addressed even if we're > happy with the package versions that are in the book right now. Thank goodness for Dan. He just makes things so easy, 'cause all you have to do is quote him on pretty well any subject, and you're almost guaranteed to pass along the right stuff. > Randy is really the driver here, but I think he'll pretty much agree > with what I said above. With Bruce's consent, guidance and counsel, this release of BLFS will continue the grand tradition of (B)LFS excellence! -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 22:11:00 up 15 days, 22:57, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.01 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
