Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Release criteria for mingw-w64 v5?

[JonY]

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On 10/19/2016 07:23, David Wohlferd wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 3:28 PM, JonY wrote:
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>> On 10/19/2016 04:18, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>> On 18 Oct, David Wohlferd wrote :
 Is there an official list of release criteria for mingw-w64
 v5? Or a targeted release date?  I'm not seeing anything on
 the web site.
>>> It would be nice to have a release, indeed.
>>> 
>>> Btw, there is still the MACRO bug about IN6_IS_ADDR_MULTICAST,
>>> in violation of the POSIX spec, and I'd love to get that fixed
>>> before we do the 5.0 release.
>>> 
>> It's just been released, but I have not yet announce it, I guess
>> that can go into 5.0.1.
> 
> Wow.  That was... abrupt.  I didn't even know it was being
> considered.
> 
> Was the cutoff before or after that big checkin I just did to
> upgrade the make files?  From one point of view, I'm hoping it was
> included.  On the other hand, I would never have pushed this had I
> known we were just days away from a release.
> 

You're right it was kind of abrupt, but RC has been out forever
without much feedback.

The regenerated auto* changes were not included, but I did include
some recent code fixes.

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[Mingw-w64-public] Announcing v5.0.0

[JonY]

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v5.0.0 is released!

Some notable changes include:
* Fixes to the __mingw_printf family of functions.
* DirectX updates from Wine.
* Various updates to support Windows 7 and 10.
* Various header typo fixes.

And here are the downloads:








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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Release criteria for mingw-w64 v5?

[David Wohlferd]

> RC has been out forever without much feedback.

Ahh.  I did not know this.

Looking back thru the archive, I see the announcements came during a 
time (Feb 25 & Mar 25) when I was not following the list.  I didn't tune 
back in until July.

Of course this does raise another obvious question (see next email)...

> The regenerated auto* changes were not included, but I did include
> some recent code fixes.

That's probably a good thing.  Glad you are on top of all this.

dw

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[Mingw-w64-public] Release criteria for mingw-w64 v6?

[David Wohlferd]

Is there an official list of release criteria for mingw-w64 v6? Or a 
targeted release date?  I'm not seeing anything on the web site.

I have some changes I'd like to propose that only belong at the start of 
a new cycle.  But I'd like to see how they fit with the current plans.

dw


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Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Release criteria for mingw-w64 v6?

[Adrien Nader]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016, David Wohlferd wrote:
> Is there an official list of release criteria for mingw-w64 v6? Or a 
> targeted release date?  I'm not seeing anything on the web site.

Not that I know of.

Not that I know of.

Yes, website needs to be updated and I don't have the time to do it
before several days. Edit rights should be good enough for at least
Jonathan and a couple others but I'm definitely open to broadening the
accesses to the proper people: simply send me an email (and you can do
that for any issue with the website).
(and now I have the RSS feed for page changes fetched regularly on my
phone)

> I have some changes I'd like to propose that only belong at the start of 
> a new cycle.  But I'd like to see how they fit with the current plans.

I think a time-based release would make sense. Something like 1 year.

There usually aren't huge new features that land all at once but rather
smaller improvements which add up over the time. I think this has been
an issue in the past and people were wondering whether the changes
warranted a release or not. Meanwhile, downstreams were waiting for a
new release to be able to benefit from all the small improvements.

It's also possible to argue about the release periodicity. I wouldn't
go over 1 year. I wouldn't go below 6 months because of the additional
work. Of course, since I can't be considered as an active code author in
the project, I won't argue much about these.

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