Re: [Phpwiki-talk] stable release

[Dmitry M. <dm...@la...>]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:06:30AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:

> > 1.3.7 is still available from debian software repository
> > (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/phpwiki). It's pretty
> > embarassing actually.
> 
> In what way is it embarassing?  I have a codebase and set of features that I
> know well enough, and have kneaded most of the bugs out of.  I'm quite happy
> to track stable branches, as they come out, but keeping up to date with (and
> triaging) unstable, potentially quite buggy, releases is quite beyond my
> limited time, especially when I've got to try cherry-picking fixes out of
> CVS, with it's "every file is tracked separately" mentality.

My choice of words was unfortunate. I didn't mean to offend you.
Everyone's always complaining that Debian is behind, I got into this
(bad) habbit as well.

I thought about this for a little while and you're right of course.
Phpwiki changes so quickly that putting the latest version into unstable
will be too time consuming and not necesserily worth the effort.


-d