Hi Sander,
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 14:36 +0200, Sander Striker wrote:
> Hi Tristan,
>
> Thanks for taking care of another maintenance release of BuildStream.
>
> To avoid confusion, let's include in the intro that maintenance releases
> are not Apache releases. If we can ensure that the subject line for the
> 1.x maintenance releases are always "BuildStream" and the 2.x line will be
> "Apache BuildStream" that will help even more.
Sure.
I'll also make sure to include a word of caution that the 1.x line is
still under LGPL.
> When it comes to release candidates, let's ensure we don't use the term
> "released", but rather mention that a candidate is available for
> evaluation. We're currently using a high number 1.x number (1.95.x) for
> the 2.x release candidates as to not burn the 2.0 number - l suggest
> we mention 2.0 in the subject for clarity for release candidates.
Got it.
Cheers,
-Tristan
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 5:32 PM Tristan Van Berkom <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is another bugfix release in the 1.6.x stable series.
> >
> >
> > What is BuildStream ?
> > =====================
> > BuildStream is a Free Software tool for building/integrating
> > software
> > stacks. It takes inspiration, lessons and use-cases from various
> > projects including OBS, Reproducible Builds, Yocto, Baserock,
> > Buildroot, Aboriginal, GNOME Continuous, JHBuild, Flatpak Builder
> > and
> > Android repo.
> >
> > BuildStream supports multiple build-systems (e.g. autotools, cmake,
> > distutils, make, meson), and can create outputs in a range of
> > formats
> > (e.g. debian packages, flatpak runtimes, sysroots, system images)
> > for
> > multiple platforms and chipsets.
> >
> >
> > =================
> > buildstream 1.6.8
> > =================
> >
> > o Only test remote CAS push capabilities if push is enabled.
> > This improves compatibility with new grpcio releases.
> >
> > o Dummy sandbox for checking out from dirrefernt arches.
> > Ability to check out build artifacts with incompatible arch
> > assuming no commands need to be run.
> >
> > o Backport regex flags fix to support newer versions of Python
> >
> >
> > Contributors:
> > =============
> > - Abderrahim Kitouni
> > - Chandan Singh
> > - Sam Thursfield
> > - Seppo Yli-Olli
> > - Tristan van Berkom
> >
> >
> > Where can I get it ?
> > ====================
> > https://github.com/apache/buildstream/releases/tag/1.6.8
> >
> > For more information on the BuildStream project, visit our home
> > page
> > at https://buildstream.build/
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Tristan
> >
> >
> >
