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Re: new release?
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: new release? |
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Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:21:34 -0600 (CST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07) |
On Sun, 6 Feb 2022, Daniel Herring wrote:
In my opinion, frequent slow releases are way better than rare fast releases.
That may be true for some software, but libtool has a really good test
suite so if tests pass, there is high confidence of quality for the
systems it has been executed on. It is abnoxiously painful to build
libtool starting from git sources so hardly anyone is testing the
unreleased code.
Pushing out a release assures that the mechanics are working and that
it is even possible to create a release.
Users are much more apt to report bugs and patches against software
that they can easily use.
Bob
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