Shoud devel port be RC or GIT based?

2010-02-14 Thread CeDeROM
Hello world! In a moments of hard testing just before a software release, releases of a RC (Release Candidate) packages are done to alow some final tests. I am wondering if it is convenient to create the devel port, to allow better testing for non-freebsd-aware users. Would that be more convenient

Re: Shoud devel port be RC or GIT based?

2010-02-26 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:45:27 + CeDeROM wrote: > Hello world! > > In a moments of hard testing just before a software release, releases > of a RC (Release Candidate) packages are done to alow some final > tests. I am wondering if it is convenient to create the devel port, to > allow better te

Re: Shoud devel port be RC or GIT based?

2010-02-26 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 15/02/2010 01:45, CeDeROM wrote: > In a moments of hard testing just before a software release, releases > of a RC (Release Candidate) packages are done to alow some final > tests. I am wondering if it is convenient to create the devel port, to > allow better testing for non-freebsd-aware users.

Re: Shoud devel port be RC or GIT based?

2010-03-04 Thread CeDeROM
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> (...) >> allow better testing for non-freebsd-aware users. Would that be more >> convenient to base such devel port on a RC releases, or directly the >> GIT repository? > > This approach is not very popular. An RC release is fine, but if y