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Re: Stable releases
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Neil Jerram |
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Re: Stable releases |
Date: |
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:01:41 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> writes:
> Right now we have stable releases at intervals best measured in years
> (0 in 2005, 3 in 2006). While having them more often would be good,
> 2-3 days is way too ambitious. I'd suggest as something that is
> achievable and would be useful:
>
> release 2 months after last release if anything significant has
> changed (where significant means new feature or bug fix)
>
> release 6 months after last release if anything has changed at all
>
> release after a 1 week cooling off period if a serious bug is fixed
That's fine, but 99% of the time I expect it to collapse in practice
to just the last point, because
- by definition, nothing should usually change in a stable series
apart from bug fixes
- bug fixes usually happen in response to someone reporting a problem,
and I find it difficult to imaging saying to that person "we've
fixed your bug, but don't regard it as important and so will not be
making a release until a couple of months' time".
> In my view, the main path to guile usage by other than the people on
> this list is via stale releases and then packaging systems. This
> enables other people to choose to depend on guile. Currently, that's
> a scary choice to make.
Not sure I understand. What do you think it is that makes the choice
scary?
Regards,
Neil
- Re: Stable releases, (continued)
- Re: Stable releases, Rob Browning, 2006/11/20
- Re: Stable releases, Neil Jerram, 2006/11/21
- Re: Stable releases, Rob Browning, 2006/11/22
- Re: Stable releases, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/11/22
- Re: Stable releases, Rob Browning, 2006/11/24
- Re: Stable releases, Neil Jerram, 2006/11/27
- Re: Stable releases, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/11/28
- Re: Stable releases, Ludovic Courtès, 2006/11/27
Re: Stable releases, Neil Jerram, 2006/11/21
Re: Stable releases, Greg Troxel, 2006/11/21
- Re: Stable releases,
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