Re: [Plplot-devel] Are we at the release candidate stage now?

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-03-25 09:00]:

> We have actually already advertised the CVS snapshots (not "release
> candidate", please, see below) on plplot-general. I encourage you to make
> another announcement there strongly asking for testing help. We have had
> nearly 4000 downloads of the 5.2.0 tarball as a result of my last release
> announcement on that list so that is a pretty good announcement venue. Also,
> I assume you are getting widespread Debian testing exposure through your
> package releases there.
> 
> BTW, I like the cautious phrasing you use in announcing the Debian packages.
> IMHO that caution is still appropriate because we are far from a release
> candidate at the moment. I would prefer our team of Unix cross-platform
> testers (Joao, Maurice, and me and anybody else lurking on this list) to
> finish our tests on the various platforms accessible to us before we start
> advertising a release candidate.

I think that advertising the tarballs now as release candidates will have
the psychological advantage of making users conscious of the proximity of
the release.  Hence, they will be more willing to download the beast and
test it. "CVS snapshot" is not as sexy and exciting as "Release Candidate". 

I cannot (of course) prove my claim and, since you are the Release Engineer,
the final word is yours.  I am just afraid that only one week for users
tests will be too short.

-- 
Rafael