From: Michal H. <ms...@gm...> - 2008-02-24 23:53:00
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:46:03AM +0100, Martin Petricek wrote: > > There are always few more days which would help. This release had > > I think the relase was posponed for about a month or two from the time we > originally thought about the release ... > > > definitely lack-of-testing problem. And I agree, we should have waited > > for Martin after he gets back on Sunday and haven't done release on > > Friday. > > We have already discussed some testing improvements in make_release > > script to ensure that stupid typos don't get out in release. We will > > discuss that in the list later. > > > > > 2) each release should be posted here before making it available or mark it as beta for few days > > > > I do agree with you, but I would prefer rc rather than beta naming > > convention, because we are still in beta stage (no stable release > > yet). > > > > I have started discussion about rc releases some time ago > > (http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3d8552360704180500g7f6c5697m9d861bd9ea441b93%40mail.gmail.com) > > and there was no consensus about that (responses are not in archive > > because we have discussed that in private emails). > > However, I would prefer standard sf.net download section for rc versions > > rather than mailing list, because we have some limits on posts and it is > > generally not a good idea to post such a big emails. > > 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. > either re-release the same thing under new version tag on sourceforge, or > fix any bugs found and repeat the RC process. The length of testing could > depend on whether we release new minor version (shorter) or major version > (longer) > > 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 |