Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-16 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 09:14 +0100, Robert Helling wrote: > On 16.12.2013, at 00:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > Dirk, > > > Something like: a 4 weeks window to merge new features after a release. > > Then 8 weeks of bug fixing, documenting, translating, and finally a week > > to do the release. Whic

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-16 Thread Robert Helling
On 16.12.2013, at 00:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote: Dirk, > Something like: a 4 weeks window to merge new features after a release. > Then 8 weeks of bug fixing, documenting, translating, and finally a week > to do the release. Which gives us quarterly releases. I am a bit hesitant about this. For dy

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Lubomir I. Ivanov
On 16 December 2013 02:21, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > On 12/16/2013 01:01 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: >> >> On 16 December 2013 01:56, Lutz Vieweg wrote: >>> >>> >>> PS: I'm writing this on a laptop that I just had to boot with >>> an ancient linux-3.8 kernel just because the also installed >>> linux-

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Chris Lewis
> I did report bugs regardings USB regressions before, but the > particular adapter I'm using right now is one I borrowed from > the hotel I'm currently staying at. (They surprisingly do not > have wireless, but wired InterNet access, only, in the rooms.) In certain hotel chains this is more commo

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > > Also, I wouldn't want to dilute attention (if there is any) > from the one open USB bug that currently bothers me most (#53211). That one should be fixed in 3.12. I don't think it got back-ported to stable, though - but if you can verify th

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Lutz Vieweg
On 12/16/2013 01:01 AM, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: On 16 December 2013 01:56, Lutz Vieweg wrote: PS: I'm writing this on a laptop that I just had to boot with an ancient linux-3.8 kernel just because the also installed linux-3.11 kernel won't work with the darned USB-EtherNet adapter... I wished

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Lubomir I. Ivanov
On 16 December 2013 01:56, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > > PS: I'm writing this on a laptop that I just had to boot with > an ancient linux-3.8 kernel just because the also installed > linux-3.11 kernel won't work with the darned USB-EtherNet > adapter... I wished the USB subsystem of Linux wasn't > on a t

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 00:56 +0100, Lutz Vieweg wrote: > On 12/16/2013 12:40 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > that caught your attention, didn't it? > > Yes, kind of... > > > Comments (besides the obvious "you're on drugs, Dirk")? > > I wonder whether an application for a very specific purpose > like

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Lutz Vieweg
On 12/16/2013 12:40 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: that caught your attention, didn't it? Yes, kind of... Comments (besides the obvious "you're on drugs, Dirk")? I wonder whether an application for a very specific purpose like subsurface should actually be expected to change often enough to justif

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 01:48 +0200, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote: > On 16 December 2013 01:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > > Hehe... > > > > that caught your attention, didn't it? > > > > I am thinking of switching to a time based release methodology. There > > are a couple of weird obscure open source pr

Re: merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Lubomir I. Ivanov
On 16 December 2013 01:40, Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > Hehe... > > that caught your attention, didn't it? > > I am thinking of switching to a time based release methodology. There > are a couple of weird obscure open source projects that have dabbled > with this and apparently this is working well for

merge window for Subsurface 4.1 is open

2013-12-15 Thread Dirk Hohndel
Hehe... that caught your attention, didn't it? I am thinking of switching to a time based release methodology. There are a couple of weird obscure open source projects that have dabbled with this and apparently this is working well for them... :-) So for 4.1 this is mainly a crazy idea, but sta