On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 04:12:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:53:13PM +0000, Malcolm Turnbull wrote: > > Georg, > > > > That's a timely reminder thanks: > > I just had another chat with Simon Horman who has kindly offered to > > take a look at this again. > > That's cool! > > The only thing is that I don't want to delay the release only for this, > and at the same time I'm pretty sure it's possible to do something which > will not impact existing code within a reasonable time frame. I just > don't know how long it takes to make everyone agree on the schema. My > intent is to release 1.7 by the end of next week *if we don't discover > new scary bugs*. So if you think it's doable by then, that's fine. Or > if you want to buy more time, you need to discover a big bug which will > keep me busy and cause the release to be delayed ;-) Otherwise I think > it will have to be in 1.8. > > Note, to be clear, if many people insist on having this, we don't have an > emergency to release by the end of next week, but it's just a policy we > cannot pursue forever, at least by respect for those who were pressured > to send their stuff in time. So I think that we can negociate one extra > week if we're sure to have something completed, but only if people here > insist on having it in 1.7. > > Thus the first one who has a word to say is obviously Simon : if you > think that even two weeks are not achievable, let's calmly postpone and > avoid any stress.
My preference is to take things calmly as TBH I am only just getting started on this and I think the schema could take a little time to get a consensus on.
