Announcements for btrfs-progs?

David,

I was wondering if you could please send out announcements for btrfs-progs when you tag a release or -rc? There doesn't seem to be a good mechanism to track releases and IMHO the more people are notified, the more testing we can get, not to mention faster propagation into distros.

Thanks,

Holger

Hi Holger,

I agree that announcements would be good, but I'd still like to point out that, since the btrfs-progs repository is mirrored on github, you can use the poorly advertised atom feed to keep track of tags:
https://github.com/kdave/btrfs-progs/releases.atom

Alas, there is no such feature for watching branches (it was apparently discontinued). So I would (also) like to see announcements when a new integration branch is made public. At present, I rely on manually checking the branch list periodically.

Cheers,

WorMzy

(resent to btrfs mailing list too)

Will do. Sorry for inconvenience.

Not that it matters for non-Fedora users, but FWIW Fedora has release monitoring scripts which notify me when a new tarball appears.

So Fedora, at least, gets a prompt update even if there's no formal announcement (assuming I'm not behind the curve). ;)

Still, announcements would be great, esp. if they have a summary of what's contained in the update.

-Eric

I subscribe to the RSS feeds of the btrfs git repositories thus notice new commits / tags.

However, I did miss when btrfs git repository shifted release maintainers and thus changed the repository i should be subscribed to.

But, I don't currently package nor test RC tarballs, only released versions and after dust settles.

Regards,

Dimitri.