On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 11:45:14AM +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > Hi, > > we are a two-man group maintaining Conkeror in the official repository > of Gentoo Linux. As we also form the Emacs team, Conkeror is a nice > choice for the mouse-challenged. Anyways, what hassles us sometimes is > the lack of proper release tarballs of Conkeror so that we have to > prepare them ourselves and distribute them over the Gentoo Mirror > system. Also we would love to see more frequent releases of Conkeror. > > V-Li >
Hello, Thanks for your work. We consider conkeror still to be an experimental program, and with fixes and important features still being added, we consider the best version to run is always the latest git head. The version numbers (like the current 0.9.2) are really milestone numbers --- a way for us to know, when we get a bug report, what issues may be relevant to the person who reported the issue. The milestones generally correspond to the introduction of a major patch. (0.9.2 corresponded to the introduction of the new module system.) But in between milestones, there is still a steady stream of important patches, so we don't want people to get the impression that the milestones are somehow sanctified, stable, releases. They are simply marked points in time. >From a packaging point of view, the system adopted by Debian is a very good one. Each release is versioned with our milestone number, a plus sign, and the date of the git pull. This scheme makes it easy for us to pinpoint the exact git head that an issue reporter is running, or at least very close to it. Axel Beckert can tell you more about this. If you would like to stay in closer communication with us, to know about important changes that should get priority for package releases, you're welcome to come to our irc channel. Also we keep the debian packaging scripts right in our main repository for the convenience of the debian maintainer. We would be happy to do the same for Gentoo if it would make anything easier for you. I will be away until Monday, so won't be able to reply until then. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
