Re: What is going on with releases, mailing lists?

[Ben Pfaff]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

> 2.58 was not announced because it has a problem that affects Automake.
> I never announced it, and I am somewhat unhappy that Debian has
> already shipped it.  All this mess results from the now asynchronous
> process to upload files on ftp.gnu.org.  Had it been synchronous,
> there would have been no 2.58 out there.

So at what point do you consider a product ready to ship?  There
was an announcement on the autotools-announce list and it
appeared on ftp.gnu.org.  At that point I figured it was ready to
go, so I packaged it and uploaded.
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