Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Kevin Kofler
Alex Hudson wrote: I view this as entirely equivalent to having a rule about not breaking trunk in version control: I don't know anyone who seriously argues that breaking a project compile is a good thing. Breaking the OS should be culturally identical - that it's a development branch or

Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Alex Hudson
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 13:43 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: If something fails to COMPILE, this actually hinders development. In fact, I'm one of the first ones to yell if package builds in Rawhide are broken (due to some dependency breakage or whatever). Something failing to RUN is a wholely

Re: Development to release quality (was: Re: openssh: no pre-release sanity check?)

2011-09-12 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Alex Hudson fed...@alexhudson.com wrote: I view this as entirely equivalent to having a rule about not breaking trunk in version control: I don't know anyone who seriously argues that breaking a project compile is a good thing. Breaking the OS should be