Lustre discuss - Mar 2007 - ETA of Lustre 1.6? Any new betas?

Hi all!

What''s the current progress of Lustre 1.6? Any targeted release?

The reason I''m asking is that the release rate of betas have been 
painfully low, which implies that development also is slow.

Being an advocate of "release early - release often" I would much 
rather see a steady stream of betas (or weekly snapshots, whatever) 
where you can see the progress of fixed bugs and such.

As the situation stands now all I''ve seen are "targeted for
betaX"
notes to known bugs, despite that patches exists and seem to be 
commited in some tree somewhere.

I know that there also is the QA issue, but since we''re talking betas 
release them anyway with a comment on why they failed QA if that''s the 
case.

I would suggest that you establish some form of scheduled releases of 
snapshots, once a week or so. This would help us users by enabling us 
to try the latest snapshot and see if 
the-bug-that-did-bite-us-the-last-time is fixed so we can move along 
to the next-thing-that-bites-us. Right now the turnaround time seems 
to be months, if not years, for 1.6 issues :/


/Nikke
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