[ANNOUNCE] dfu-util 0.6 release

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hello.

On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 00:02, Boudewijn wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2012 11:35:24 Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 10:00, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> > > Dnia 2012-04-27, pią o godzinie 22:57 +0100, Stefan Schmidt pisze:
> > > > It was about time again to bundle all changes in dfu-util land
> > > > together and make a release out of it.
> > > 
> > > Great job guys! As devel ML is rather low traffic, maybe it would be
> > > wise to announce also on community at lists.openmoko.org ?
> > 
> > Hmm, announce was really used for Openmoko products and releases.
> > (Ab-)using it now for dfu-util might be a bit much. We stayed for
> > discussions on this list as it was used for it before and we did not
> > see much point in having our own dfu-util list with maybe only a
> > handfull of people.
> > 
> > Actually I don't know how many people are still using dfu-util with
> > Openmoko devices. Many have switched to Qi and SD card booting it
> > seems to me. Getting some feedback on this would be nice.
> > 
> I second Patryks words: thank you for your continued work on dfu-util! 
> 
> I am subscribed to communitiy as well as devel, and see the volume of replies 
> to Patryks little poll reaching the volume of mails you have been exchaning 
> while developing dfu-util. Most are using dfu-util, with one or two 
> exceptions. 
> 
> I use dfu-util as well for flashing my Freerunner. My GTA04 does not support 
> DFU, as far as I know, but I enjoy reading your step by step progress whenever 
> I can spare the time.

Thanks for your kind words. We will keep working on it at a slow but
steady pace for sure. :)

regards
Stefan Schmidt