Re: coreutils release plans

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/03/2014 11:12 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 10:11 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> So coreutils-8.23 is shaping up to be a bug fix release
>> which I hope could be released within 3-4 weeks.
>> There are a few outstanding items including various df fixes
>> and sort multithreaded fixups to include. We should concentrate
>> on any of the outstanding non feature bugs in this time.
> 
> I'm not aware of a sort issue - what do you refer to here?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-01/msg00032.html

>> After that the ground would be clear for a more
>> invasive update to add prelim multibyte support
>> and also the unified join/uniq/sort key selection.
> 
> Hooray! The idea of throwing away (parts of) that huge and ugly
> downstream I18N patch saves my day. ;-)
> 
>> So I'm thinking:
>>
>> 4 weeks:  8.23 bugfix stable
>> 10 weeks: 9.0  feature unstable
>> 14 weeks: 9.1  bugfix stable
>>
>> thoughts?
> 
> We'll need much test cases for the I18N support. In the downstream
> patches, there are only a few ones, and some of them are even
> skipped because they'd sometimes fail.

Yes test cases are vitally important here.
Restricting these to expand/unexpand should be doable.
I already provided some test cases off the top of my head,
and would bolster those when reviewing fully.

thanks,
Pádraig.