Graham seems reasonable enough. I just worry that testers are not as clear headed.
gary On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Graham Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >
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