On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Tom Hacohen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31/03/14 13:06, Stefan Schmidt wrote: >> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 20:35, Cedric BAIL wrote: >>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Stefan Schmidt >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> In 1.5h the first stabilization week is over which marks the end of >>>> the first cycle in 1.10. >>>> >>>> People suggested to release a technology preview tarball at this >>>> stage. I planned for it on 1.9 but did not do it in the end because I >>>> see so much changes coming in the second merge window which makes me >>>> wonder if such a tarball would show anything. >>>> >>>> Would you folks prefer to have one or not? >>> >>> I think it would be useful for packager especially now that we did >>> introduce eolian in the build process. This should help them get ready >>> and be sure that our tarball are ok for them when we do start the >>> final release cycle. >> >> Hmm, so it would be more an early tarball release instead of a real >> tech preview for users and developers. I wonder if packagers would >> really pick it up for early testing. Its 7 weeks before the final >> release not sure if they already think about packaging 1.10. >> >> We would need to make sure that such a package would really only be >> used for testing of the packaging itself and not going into any >> distribution channels. >> >> In the end we will only find out when going down this path I fear. I >> have the revs from the last commits before the second merge window >> opened and will tag it as well as creating tech preview tarballs later >> today or tomorrow. >> >> regards >> Stefan Schmidt >> > > I think this is a waste of time because of what you said, it's 7 weeks > away from the release. I believe it's better to just do an alpha before > the final freeze, or a pre-alpha a week before that, and have this as > the preview.
For most packager, 7 weeks is still short, at least that what I heard from them. Most of them do there work on the side giving them time to prepare is I think worth it. -- Cedric BAIL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
