On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:34:17 gary liquid wrote: > i don't think I follow with this extremely limited -devel testing cycle > route, especially since *anyone* (even seasoned professionals) who connect > to -devel at this point for however short a period run the overriding risk > of screwing up their system.
I don't agree. I, personally, run with extras-devel enabled all the time. But then I don't ever click on "Upgrade All" and I don't say "oh, a shiny new version of Canola -- must upgrade". However, when I install something new it often comes from extras-devel, and I do upgrade things sometimes (because I want the upgrade, or it has been around a while, or I suspect that it might interact in some important way with one of my apps). For beta releases, I announce them on ITT and I tell beta testers to temporarily set up extras-devel in order to load the upgrade, and then disable it again. Basically, I hope and expect developers to run with extras-devel enabled -- it helps us all if we are each keeping reasonably up to date with each others apps (and, hopefully, finding interaction problems before our users do). And I expect power users to have extras-devel configured (because they have participated in someone's beta test) but disabled (so they don't pick up stuff by mistake). Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
