Re: next release

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 17:29, Feng Shuo wrote:
> Sorry for my absence, I am too busy these weeks ---- my current work
> in ICT eats up all my spare time ---- After all, I need it to get
> money :(.

It is the life, unfortunately. ;)

> If it doesn't matter, please wait me to the end of this week. I mean,
> if I still can do nothing before Nov. 21, please release 0.96 without
> my patch

No problem.

> About the future of GRUB, I think the original GRUB is very stable
> now, but the netboot features still need more develop. May the
> netboot part still opened for new features (Etc. new NIC drivers,
> UNDI drivers, NFS or NIS support)?

A new feature is acceptable, if it satisfies all of these conditions:

1. It does not affect any core feature at all.

2. It does not break compatibility.

3. It is maintained well by one or more people (excluding me) in a long 
term.

4. I am not expected to publish a new version for it.

But, why not GRUB 2? In GRUB 2, we don't need to even care about 
backward compatibility at all.

Okuji