Perhaps easy regular backups and an SD install be good enough for most "shiny new stuff, oops."
gary liquid wrote: > 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 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 >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
