Am Montag, den 27.09.2010, 15:26 +0200 schrieb Benoît HERVIER: > > Why should it break the philosophy of release early, release often? > > Release early, release often is a important feature to create a stable > > release - it's for testing purposes as main point. > As user should not use devel, releasing often release the karma in > extras-testing and delay things
No he should use the stable version - and get updates when it's finished and stable. I think 10 days is not the problem. > > > In your Linux distribution you get only security updates in a release > > (normally). When you upgrade your system to a newer version you will get > > new software. > > In my linux distribution, i got security update, stable new release > and bug fixes. New Releases can break the system if it uses new libs that conflict with software that uses outdated features of the lib. > > > I think devel and testing is the right place for the release early, > > release often practice. > Yes it is ... but prevent upload to extras. Or need a 'pause' in the > release early, release often. We talk about 10 days, not more. > > As now the most users (me too) uses extras-devel and co as > > normal repository and i have no problems - you have only to know that > > it's a test field. > Yes but not all users understand it, i got frequent complain from user > using unstable lib from extras-devel which my apps conflict with > (pyqt4.6 vs pyqt4.7 aka experimental). > Thats the reason why it's not activated on a default setup. I think it's very save when you install through the package-manager - you get a huge hint with all risks (i think it's extreme), but the most people can't read and think it's a joke ... > > I think the quality of software in extras (testing / devel, too.) is very > > high. > I'm not sure that outdated is really something we could name good quality :) When you call 10 days outdated - yes you are right :) Which software is so important that it needs releases just in time? AGTL for example uses a webupdate when geocaching.com changes - so it's up to date with the html parser - but it think thats very special. regards Patrick
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