On 19 April 2011 07:40, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems we've moved away from the "release early, release often" > strategy and now alphas are essentially the new release (except they > are allowed to have doctest failures, etc.) I don't think that's a fair comment. We seemed to have moved away from the lunatic release frequency, with so called "stable" releases being anything but stable. Now releases are better tested. > The fact that the latest > release is not good enough to develop off of is unfortunate for both > budding and veteran developers. But, I guess that's how things are > now... On that note, should we be more prominently featuring these > alpas on our page if this is what people should be using? I don't think people should be using alphas. But that's not to say I don't think they should be made available. As I've said on sage-devel before, I think at least the release candidates should be predominately placed on the Sage web site. Perhaps the alphas too. >> Isn't it a waste of (someone's) >> computing resources to be using such an outdated version? > > Well, feel free to ignore the results and apply the patch/run the > tests yourself :). Note that if a patch does not apply cleanly, very > little compute time is lost. Actually, the intent was (still is) to > merge this into Sage itself, and so anyone could run a buildbot > against whatever Sage on whatever system they had (though it probably > makes sense to just run one such bot on sage.math, which could be > against the latest alpha if that was automated, or even better against > the rolling hg tip of the release manager). We'll need to make it > better at dependency checking and perhaps whitelisting known doctest > failures. > > Anyways, building a 4.7 alpha now... > > - Robert > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
