On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 00:54 +0200, Andre Zepezauer wrote: > To summarise my impression of the upcoming 0.12.0 release, the feature > set is low. The most user visible things are the graphical installers > and the support of new cards. Other changes are bug fixes and small > improvements. Things that have could been done in 0.11.X releases > too.
IMHO, I support a 0.12.0 release for these reasons:
* Maintaining two different releases is a lot of work.
* Maintaining two different releases slows down the adoption of new
releases. Take the example of OpenSSL, which maintains 0.98 and 1.0
Usually, the latest release never makes it in GNU/Linux distributions.
So you get stuck with an old bug fix release and users with binaries
versions rarely enjoy recent versions.
* Free software is fast evolving. Releasing OpenSC 0.12 deprecates
0.11.x and in a way will force package maintainers to publish a new
version of OpenSC in distros. Same for dependent projects.
* 99% of GNU/Linux users use binaries, and rarely compile from sources.
Except people on the mailing list! So releasing 0.11 bugfix would mean
that a lot of people would not use 0.12 and therefore would post fewer
bug reports.
In a way : two releases = slow adoption of latest release = fewer bug
reports = no work from package maintainers.
* The current situation is that a lot of "supported smartcards" are
either end-of-live or not supported any longer or you can simply not buy
them as they are not produced. On the converse eID is on the rise.
Releasing 0.12 and then incorporating Viktor's changes will clarify the
situation. We need fewer smartcards, but with excellent support. And
frequent OpenSC releases.
For all these reasons, I am against a 0.11.x bugfix release.
Kind regards,
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Jean-Michel Pouré - Gooze - http://www.gooze.eu
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