On 04/01/2012, at 7:58 AM, Jesse Farinacci wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Mark Derricutt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Surely something as egregious as allowing releases to break should block >> 3.0.4 from being released tho. As someone who uses GPG in that manner for >> some of his releases I'd certainly want 3.0.4 to be able to release... > > > It didn't stop the 3.0.3 release, what's the difference with 3.0.4? It's > getting rather frustrating at seeing all these relatively solitary or > edge-case problems derail the entire release process. > > I have performed many releases with 3.0.3 and 3.0.4-rcX both, so this is > not a problem for me, and I dare say it's a very large majority of users > that it is also not a problem for. > > Stop stopping the presses, please!! It's just a stupid point release! It > doesn't have to solve every existing MNG-* out there! This kind of > localized Chicken Little behavior is making it harder and harder to get > small releases out the door. You're making it worse for all users. > > *sigh* > > (the same goes for all the bike shedding whiners about the dependency fetch > timeout - you know who you are)
That'd be me :) While I agree with your earlier reasoning in this case, there's a difference between a bug affecting a small subset of users that's been there for a few releases and an unexpected change in behaviour from the last release that would affect quite a few users... - Brett -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ http://au.linkedin.com/in/brettporter http://twitter.com/brettporter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
