Developers/Release 0.8.0

This is an attempt at a checklist for the "next release" - as of 2023/10, for sigrok-cli this would be either 0.7.3 or 0.8.0 (maybe the latter would be more appropriate given that 0.7.2 was over 2 years ago ?). Other subprojects have different numbers e.g. last libsigrok was 0.5.2 .

Most of this is intended to expand on the main release guidelines here https://sigrok.org/wiki/Developers/Release_process

• what platforms "must work" ?
  • linux is the most tested based on IRC traffic, but maybe we can explicitly list distros to test ?
  • win : would be nice to have a list of people we can ping to get them test a build
  • osx : no idea, few users (see https://github.com/sigrokproject/sigrok-util/pull/16 ,)
  • *BSD : no idea, no user reports in IRC

• what currently open issues should be considered "blockers" for a release ?
  •  PyEval_InitThreads() deprecated in Python 3.13 see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245598
  •  Possibly some other Python2 / 3 compatibility and deprecation issues ?
  •  random weird issues that always seem to come from Win* users running weird combinations of hardware / firmware, mostly USB ?
  •  -flto maybe breaks builds (driver list gets optimized out ? forget the details) on some distros ?

• what external projects depend on sigrok components or bindings ? does it actually matter ?
  • Pulseview
  • smuview

Transports (this would be better presented in a matrix format with feature vs OS) :

• serial (native/USB-CDC)
• USB (non-serial)
• USB
• TCP/IP
• GPIB (probably just linux ?)
• VXI ?