[glob2-devel] why the big hurry to make release candidate official? (was: Well, we have a plan then.)

[Joe Wells]

"Kieran P" <address@hidden> writes:

>     I still think that delaying with a release candidate defeats the
>     purpose of having a release candidate. The candidate is nothing
>     special, just branch and notify us,
>
> I agree. Thats why I made the RC 12 hours ago. I'm just about to try the dry
> run (making the source tarball). If no problems are rpoted, then that tarbal
> will become official and alpha23 will be out in 24-48 hours.

Why the hurry to make the release candidate official?

Why not some testing first?  A week of at least half a dozen people
actually using the release candidate would be a good idea, especially
because the hope is that 0.8.23 will be usable for many months.  This
testing should be done from the .tar.gz, not from CVS, to help make
sure that what will go to the world will be okay.

Anyway, I have some crashing bugs that need to be filed in the bug
tracker and checked out.  Please give me some time to do so.

-- 
Joe