Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 18:45:37 +0100: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 05:08:51PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > - Asking downstreams (distros) to make alpha1 packages easily available to > > opting-in users > > Yes we can do that. But this is often ineffective because distros already > have enough work to do as it is. > > What is more effective is that those among us who maintain packages put > in some extra effort in providing them. E.g. what I could do is provide > RPMs SUSE users could install from the OpenSUSE build service.
I wonder if we should delay the release announcement until we can link to a bunch of .deb/.rpm/GUIs/* from it. This way, once we do announce@, we can hope for a higher proportion of readers to act about it. (I'm not proposing to change the "no official binary releases" policy; just to wait until downstreams have made their own binaries available) > > - Asking client authors to make alpha1 versions easily available to > > opting-in users > > [e.g., tsvn nightlies — and then call for tsvn users to install them...] > > One goal of making an alpha release is to encourage third parties such > as TSVN to start looking at updating their clients. I don't think much > has happened there so far. You mean, updating the stable/GA tsvn client to use alpha1 under the hood?
