From: Jamie C. <jca...@we...> - 2001-05-16 14:13:49
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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 |