Hi Joel, I fully understand the frustration of sending out beta/RC builds for testing, receiving no feedback, and then getting bug reports *after* release. It happens to me as well, so I simply don't do the RC thing for smaller releases, but I do for the bigger updates - and I think including a new reliance on a 3rd party library would probably count as a "bigger update".
Now, I know I can checkout the current git code and test that, but I'm certainly not going to do that on a regular basis, just on spec that a release might be around the corner. If RCs were to be announced, I would definitely download it to test. When I build ClamAV, I usually do it for distribution, so I currently run my own tests against OS X 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9. I would be happy to include a test suite of your own as well. For what it's worth 'make check' only ever runs 6 tests for me - all 6 pass, 7 get skipped. Is there a more thorough integration test I could run for you? Mark On 9 May 2014, at 01:36 pm, Joel Esler (jesler) <jes...@cisco.com> wrote: > Mark, > > We found an internal issue with only the Windows build of ClamAV containing > some debug code in a certain situation, so we had to correct that. > > We used to do RCs for ClamAV, but we rarely heard any feedback during the RC, > and then we’d get bug reports when we did the actual release. > > If we could get a dedicated group of people to commit to testing an RC/Beta, > etc, we could start doing it again. > > -- > Joel Esler > Open Source Manager > Threat Intelligence Team Lead > Vulnerability Research Team > > On May 8, 2014, at 12:30 PM, Mark Allan > <markjal...@gmail.com<mailto:markjal...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Given the (as yet undisclosed) problems with 0.98.2 and its subsequent > pulling, and the release of 0.98.3 which followed shortly thereafter and > which also appears to be problematic for some, might it be worth considering > reinstating Release Candidates again? > > If an announcement had been made either via the blog or this mailing list, it > would allow people to test and find these issues before they hit the general > public. > > Just a thought. Not sure what anyone else thinks about this, or why the RC > announcements/builds stopped in the first place. > > Cheers, > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
