On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 05:01:54PM +0100, Ed W wrote: > On 18/04/2011 12:23, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > > It would be interesting to try to apply only the bugfixes made since > > 1.24 to a 1.24.1 branch and see how far it would go without conflict. > > I think my follow on caveat was something like: if it doesn't apply > reasonably cleanly, then probably it's no longer a bug fix that applies > to the 1.24 branch anyway?
Not necessarily. Sometimes I notice a bug when I'm working in a part of the code which may have changed already, but the bug was there even before. There probably won't be many of those. > There is big resistance in the user community to use anything other than > packages I think? I think it is. So it's up to the package maintainers if they feel comfortable with a git snapshot (and if their packaging rules allow that). > Plus "releases" are a good reason to post a news article, which in turn > attracts project interest and feedback... Can I recommend a blog post > on release and pushing it up to the usual geek news sites? We make announcements on Freshmeat. > How are we looking for a release at this point though?! I just pushed the last change and I'll make 1.25-pre2. Final 1.25 could be out in a week or two. -- Miroslav Lichvar --- To unsubscribe email chrony-dev-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "unsubscribe" in the subject. For help email chrony-dev-requ...@chrony.tuxfamily.org with "help" in the subject. Trouble? Email listmas...@chrony.tuxfamily.org.