On 03/28/2014 10:56, DraugTheWhopper wrote: > Right, so assuming that this email gets to the intended place > [crossfire], here's a request: is there any chance of getting a new > official upstream release? So the story is as follows: I do no coding or > developing, but know enough about Linux to run Debian Testing. However, > the current upstream version of CF is 1.70.0, which as of a week ago, is > about two years old. If i understand correctly, all trunk improvements > since then are not in any official upstream release, therefore never get > packaged for Debian, and so are not seen by the casual people who merely > "apt-get dist-upgrade" occasionally. Is there a chance a version 1.70.x > could be released periodically, or is there a 1.99 that could be > packaged separately, or should someone just start packaging nightly > builds as "crossfire-client-unstable"? Please pardon my ignorance and > correct me as necessary.
Yes, I think it's about time that we cut a new release. Even something as minor as "1.70.1" would be good, because it would mean that the *many* fixes and improvements are accessible to package users. It might not even be a bad idea to cut a minor release every year or so on a schedule, because there's really not a lot of release engineering that has to be done. Right now the code seems stable and no massive changes are being planned. Is cutting a release feasible in the next week? Thanks, Kevin Zheng _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire