So we actually got RPM 6.0 out, more or less as promised in terms of both
schedule and content.
The schedule was laid down three and half years ago, and we've been pushing
rather hard through that time to deliver the planned things, and even some
large surprise requirements like the multiple signatures and OpenPGP v6 / PQC
support landing in our lap along the way.
At times the pace has felt like bordering on reckless even to ourselves, and I
think the community is not going to disagree - for example the rpmbuild changes
in 4.20 caused a lot of ripples across multiple distros. We didn't do those
disruptive changes lightly, we simply had to blow through some walls to make
some new things possible at all. One of the new things was the declarative
buildsystem in 4.20, which we're delighted to see being eagerly adopted in the
community, despite various shortcomings.
So, now what? I think we're done breaking things for a while.
We're tired from the long climb to the 6.0 hill, the team is down by one and
there just isn't a whole lot of time left in the 6.1 cycle either. We landed
many important corner stones for future work in the late 4.x releases, now's
the time to reap the benefits from that work. So for now, we'll be
concentrating on reaping the benefits from the earlier work, addressing various
shortcomings and paper cuts of the existing features rather than rushing to
implement more new headline features.
We've adjusted the roadmap on rpm.org somewhat already, but I think there will
be more changes needed to the plans. Roadmaps are like that, best enjoyed with
plenty of salt.
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