Re: grub-0.93-win32-iso9660.diff

[Robert Millan]

I haven't looked at the TODO, but it gives me the impression that there are
too many people interested in having new features in GRUB to be in feature
freeze.

I believe this is detrimental for GRUB wide usage. For example, support
for new filesystems and, to some extent, for non-multiboot kernels is very
important to draw interest from more developers (specialy kernel developers)
into GRUB.

I vote for releasing 1.0. I'm probably unable to fix many of the current TODO
items, but I wouldn't mind helping in backporting them to 1.0 once they're
fixed in the development branch.

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:00:52PM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
>  --- "Dr. Tilmann Bubeck" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So, please release grub version 1.0 so that new things could be developed
> > and applied (either in grub2 or pupa). That would make many people happy
> > and you could concentrate on grub2/pupa.
> 
> I wanted to hear that when I asked everyone in this list, "Hey, don't you want
> to see 1.0 released now?" I got no reply to my message, so my understanding 
> was
> that nobody wanted 1.0 actually.
> 
> The question is that we have not finished all the items in the file TODO. I
> don't know how many people have took a look at the file seriously, but they 
> are
> still important issues.
> 
> However, as you pointed out, it took too long to finish them. That's why I
> asked everyone if I should finish all of them before 1.0 or I should release
> 1.0 without finishing them. I  finally get only one answer from you.
> 
> Tilman, thank you for your vote for this issue. I hope other people will 
> answer
> my question as well. If I get a feeling that a significant amount of people
> wish to have 1.0 even if GRUB is not perfect, I would be happy to release it.
> 
> Okuji

-- 
Robert Millan

"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."

 -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)