[Nut-upsdev] NUT release plans (post-2.4.1); was Re: ETIME on FreeBSD

[Charles Lepple]

On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Alexey Loukianov wrote:

> Are there any release schedule defined for the NUT?
>
> Latest release (2.4.1) was done about a year ago (Feb 2009) and  
> accordingly to
> the SVN log there were a lot of the useful changes (that are surely  
> demanded by
> the NUT users worldwide) since then. It is widely common for the linux
> developers to use half-a-year release cycle (RedHat, Canonical, KDE,  
> Gnome) and
> I think that it might be good to try to stick in with the same  
> policy for the
> NUT releases. It might give a better integration into the major  
> distributions
> like Fedora or Ubuntu and will offer the end-users with a better  
> service
> (unfortunately it is common for the linux end-user nowdays not to be  
> familiar
> with the SVN and with the software installation from the source code).

Arnaud is in charge of releases, so I will defer to him on the  
official answers.

We planned to include reformatted and reorganized documentation with  
the next release, which was tentatively planned for the beginning of  
this year. On the AsciiDoc branch, Arnaud has made a lot of progress  
on the website, and I still have a few man pages to convert, but we  
still need to do some editing to tie it all together. Having a second  
set of eyes look over the documentation is always helpful (hint, hint).

As I mentioned earlier, I don't think we need to be exactly in sync  
with the rest of the Linux world, and in many cases, asking someone to  
reconfigure a tool tied in with power management every six months is a  
little excessive.