Re: 1.99 Release freeze

[Navdeep Parhar]

2010/9/20 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden>:
> Hello. A I announced before the release freeze happens at the end of
> 20th September. Now it's 21st September 0:26 UTC and so I officially
> announce main trunk as frozen.

GRUB_CONTRIB does not appear to work any more.  What is the
recommended way of building stuff in grub-extras for 1.99?

Regards,
Navdeep

> Only bugfixes and documentation updates
> are to be done from now on to the trunk. Also patches that were approved
> before freeze are still allowed in. According to my notes they are:
> - "[PATCH] Handle partition devices without corresponding disk devices"
> 09/10/2010 06:33 PM +0100
> - "[PATCH] USB serial - missing configuration" 09/15/2010 07:58 AM +0200
>
> Also some of the improvements have a big importance/effort ratio so as
> of exception they are allowed to go in:
> - Detecting LVM/RAID without device.map.
> - Compressing core on yeeloong
> - Implementing new part of multiboot2 specification.
> - Networking by Manoelo Rebelo Abranches.
> - Writing embedding zone using Reed-Solomon.
> - Using cache on yeeloong for videocard.
> - Changing video IDs in linux loader.
> - Reenabling extras
>
> I know this list is longer than it should be but unfortunately I
> couldn't finish/review them in time.
>
> Further exceptions can be granted on case-by-case basis. And of course
> the developpement in experimental can continue but I recommend everyone
> to do testing and bug-hunting.
>
> I changed version to 1.99~beta0 but I don't do any upload because of
> these missing parts and known bugs.
>
> --
> Regards
> Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
>
>
>
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