Re: Updates

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> > Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
> >>Before going into CVS, however, Squid just had patches for bugfixes in
> >>between major revision releases.  Webmin is somewhat different than most
> >>projects in that a module update only takes a couple of seconds...no
> >>need for a recompile or anything.  So it seems like overkill to release
> >>incremental versions...I for one don't want you spending unnecessary
> >>time rolling out packages every few days.  I would only encourage such
> >>releases to address security problems--which should /always/ result in a
> >>new package release, even if it's the only thing changed.
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, that was pretty much my thinking too. One thing I could do though
> > is make available for download the latest version of webmin from my
> > development systems , which would include all the latest updates. The catch
> > is that it might not completely work properly, as some modules might be
> > in the middle of re-development at any one time..
> >
> >  - Jamie
> 
> I can't even begin to advise against this strongly enough.  Users will
> /invariably/ expect it to work perfectly, and complain loudly on the
> list when it doesn't!  I see it all the time on the Squid
> list--documented bugs, FAQs, and incompatibilities...about once a day I
> see one of each come up.  But, I guess we get a lot of that here also,
> anyway, so I suppose it's a moot point.
> 
> So, go for it if you like, and just ignore the silly questions about
> brokenness in the devel version.

Probably not worth the effort then .. Instead, I'll just try to release
major versions more often :)

 - Jamie