On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 22:17, Chris Morley <[email protected]>
wrote:

If we make a 2.8 stabilization branch right now then master is open to
> merge reverse run, python 3 work, state tags etc.
> And hopefully we won't wait three years to release again...


I think this might be the way to go.  Lets get 2.8 frozen now, squash the
(known) bugs and aim to release ASAP.

Then we open up master to cool new stuff, as we will be less concerned
about breaking it. And then aim to have 2.8.1 (or 2.9) come out some time
this year with reverse-run etc.
(This doesn't actually change much from the point of view of those using
the feature, they will still be on an experimental branch, but at least it
isn't a reversion for them)

With Wheezy EOL and the current LiveCD not really working at the moment I
think that there is some urgency.

(As a stopgap I am trying and failing to make a Wheezy / RTAI liveCD that
works, and we have a patch already lined up to switch to preempt-rt and
Stretch for 2.7.14, but that leaves parallel-port users potentially in
trouble)

-- 
atp
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