Re: [chrony-dev] Time for a release?

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:30:46PM +0100, Ed W wrote:
> >  Do you think that we could see a release at some imminent point?
> >
> > I do realise that there is a git repo, but for various reasons it's
> > easier to build packages from tarballs.  Seems like it's been a
> > while since the last big lump of progress so would be nice to get it
> > out to the distros?
>
> I think in a few weeks we could make one.
>
> My chrony todo list keeps growing, but I have now only two major
> things I'd like to see in the next release:
> - improve the code which adjusts the polling interval between
>  minpoll and maxpoll, the current one seems to work quite badly

In what sense "badly"? I looked at it for a while, but did not see how one of
the other choice would be better. What are you trying to maximize?


> - add weighting to the runs test so chrony can survive longer
>  intervals with heavily loaded network
>
> BTW, is anyone here keeping up to date with git and testing?

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