On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:37:35PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
On 2018-08-24 6:27 p.m., Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
I don't know what all is pending for libdrm, but I know that we've agreed on a very low bar for when to release libdrm:
"The release criteria for libdrm is essentially "if you need a release, make one". There is no designated release engineer or maintainer. Anybody is free to make a release if there's a certain feature or bug fix they need in a released version of libdrm."
First of all, let me assure you that I'm not picking on you in particular, this applies to anybody who makes a release.
Quite frankly, that sucks. :) A brief "heads up, I'm cutting a libdrm release, let me know if there's something you want in it" e-mail at least 24 hours (not counting weekend days) before making the release shouldn't be asking too much.
Given that making a libdrm release is pretty much for free I'm not sure about the concern. We've had plenty of back-to-back libdrm releases. Since libdrm is supposed to be always in release state (it's mostly just headers and simple wrappers) I don't see a downside aside from "looks mildly silly" :-)
If we'd have a libdrm release maintainer that'd be different, but no one volunteered (and for years) so that's unlikely to change. -Daniel