Re: [Phpwiki-talk] stable release

[Matthew P. <mp...@de...>]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 10:37:09PM -0700, Dmitry M. wrote:
> 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.

Aaah, well, that's stable.  If 1.3.7 ends up in stable, I'll be a bit ticked
off myself.  But I'm following the freeze process a bit, and am certainly
intending that I get something nice and tidy in there.  Personally, I don't
think there'll be a freeze any time real soon, though.  Still too many weird
issues to sort out.

There's something to spur you on, though, Reini: if you can stabilise and
release 1.4 in the next month or two, we can have a stable PHPWiki release
in a stable Debian release.  Otherwise Debian will ship with whichever
unstable release happened to be out when Debian freezes.

> Phpwiki changes so quickly that putting the latest version into unstable
> will be too time consuming and not necesserily worth the effort.

Especially when 1.3.9 exploded and left everyone covered in a sticky,
translucent goo.  (Mmmm, goo).

- Matt