[U-Boot-Custodians] [ANN] U-Boot v2020.01-rc4 released

[Simon Glass]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 10:07, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 06:00:11PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On 12/3/19 5:52 PM, Simon Glass wrote:
> > > Hi Tom,
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 20:11, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hey all,
> > >>
> > >> It's release day and here is v2020.01-rc4.  Yes, I'm still working on
> > >> fixing all of the issues that pop up as I get the MTD clean-up series
> > >> ready to go.  In fact, what I need to do at this point is grab the
> > >> handful of size reduction patches that this has shown are worthwhile,
> > >> then I can do the MTD series.  Then we're down to just fixing up
> > >> misconversions where things got turned off.
> > >>
> > >> Once again, for a changelog,
> > >> git log --merges v2020.01-rc3..v2020.01-rc4
> > >> and as always, I ask for more details in the PRs people send me so I can
> > >> put them in the merge commit.
> > >>
> > >> I'm planning on doing -rc5 on December 23rd with the release scheduled
> > >> on January 6th.  Thanks all!
> > >
> > > Speaking of next year, what is the plan for the release. Is there any
> > > chance we might move back to a release every two months? The
> > > three-month process is very slow...
> >
> > I am very happy with this 3-month release cycle, it's less stressful and
> > I think the quality of the releases is higher too.
>
> I thought I said this a release or so ago, sorry.  I believe we'll be
> sticking with the 3-month cycle and I hope to find time to more actively
> use a -next branch myself to help with some of the delay, or at least
> slower feedback cycle.

That would certainly help, but it hasn't proved possible so far. Let's
see how it goes with the next release.

Do you think if we can improve the testing (e.g. with more mini-labs
attached to gitlab) we might resolve these stability problems?

Regards,
Simon