[OpenWrt-Devel] OpenWrt 19.03 plans

[Bjørn Mork]

Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io> writes:

>> Is there any kind of "official" roadmap/checklist available what "needs"
>> to be done?
>
> not that I am aware of, but from the top of my head:
>
> - make sure all targets are ported properly to 4.14
> - disable all devices which cannot cannot handle the increased kernel
>   size anymore
> - drop all targets which are not ported to 4.14
> - fix important open issues in the tracker

Apologies if this is out of line...  I just fealt the urge to post my
personal opinion, FWIW.

It seems to me that you are setting way too high standards for
yourselves.  From my point of view, the OpenWrt master branch is almost
always in a releasable state. The OpenWrt development and review process
ensures an extremely high quality, even for targets which are considered
WiP. There are very few days over the last 6 months where you could not
have decided to cut a release branch, and got away with it.  It's
something to be proud of! But you need to tell the rest of the world
that you are proud of this by making releases.

You should accept that the targets which are ported properly to 4.14
defines "all targets" for the next release.  It's not the other way
round.  Any remaining targets which can be expected to be ported to 4.14
or later, if any, can and should be deferred for a later release.  Note
that accepting this means that there could be a "next release" in 2019
too...

You should also accept that there will be unfixed important open issues
at all times.  You can't fix them all.  To make a release, these issues
will either have to be
 - ignored for that release,
 - demoted to less important. or
 - removed by removing the feature/target/whatever is affected by the
   issue from the release

Look at the Debian "release critical" bug handling.  It's not really
about fixing all the RC bugs, but dealing with them.

I realize that actually making a release is real work too, and that this
has to take some time after making the initial cut.  But delaying the
cut for the master branch to get in an even "more ready" state is not
really helping...

Just my .021 € (considering inflation)


Bjørn

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