From: Michal H. <ms...@gm...> - 2008-02-25 08:52:50
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:05:31AM +0100, Martin Petricek wrote: > > > The betas/rc's could be posted on pdfedit.petricek.net "somewhere hidden", > > > so only testers (probably pdfedit team + package maintainers ... basically > > > everybody in pdfedit-devel) would know about them. Once tested, we'll > > > > Is there some reason why to hide them? I don't see any. More testers => > > bigger chance to catch bugs. > > The more testers the better? Then we can release it on sourceforge as > usual and expose it to general public :) That is not a case just because of packagers. They don't want to see real releases very often IMO. Rc version is different, because you don't push it to distro, but you can just test, whether there are some regressions and report them. > It may be questionable whether > people want release candidates which may be sometimes good, but sometimes > quite distant from something usable due to bugs. Right, and therefore we could create rc only if we really intend to do release in near time (without many changes in between). So we could: - create rc, - make feature freeze - make it public - wait week or two for feedback and - make a release (no new features, just bug fixes). > > Another possibility would be to create automated nightly builds - well, > not binaries, but only source tarballs. Then we can just announce > something like "release is coming, test the nightlies" :) Whoever is on > devel interested in testing willl test it. This we can do anyway. Now we have problem, that we are not able to find out which CVS snapshot was checked out from the version. So if someone checkout from CVS and then report bug, we don't know which sources are affected unless we ask for date when he did checkout and try to figure out. So I do agree, it would be fine to have nightly builds (but rc should be used as well, because nightly builds don't help with bugs with releasing and we should get use to feature freeze anyway). Who is going to take care about that? > > Martin Petricek > > GPG/PGP Public key: http://www.petricek.net/petricm.pgp > Fingerprint 6AA8 FFCE C061 1CB2 55F0 A1F3 3AA9 EB4F BD50 C1B8 > /------------------------------------------------------------\ > | WWW: http://www.petricek.net/ | > \------------------------------------------------------------/ -- Michal Hocko |