Re: RFC: creating a bison-announce list

2019-01-06 Thread Simon Richter
Hi Akim, On 06.01.19 09:10, Akim Demaille wrote: > It has been asked to explicitly mark releases on git, so that CIs can trigger > builds automatically with these releases. This is already the case: tags > mark releases (betas and stable). Will it be sufficient to test betas with existing pro

Re: RFC: creating a bison-announce list

2019-01-06 Thread Akim Demaille
> Le 24 déc. 2018 à 18:00, Akim Demaille a écrit : > > Hi all, > [...] > Maybe creating bison-announce, which would be only about major events > (releases and prereleases), would help? I have created bison-annou...@gnu.org. To subscribe to it, two options: - https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/li

Re: RFC: creating a bison-announce list

2018-12-30 Thread Uxio Prego
Hi Simon, > On 27 Dec 2018, at 04:29, Simon Richter wrote: > > [...] > > [...] Setting up a CI > system that pulls "experimental" Bison into a chroot and test-compiles a > project there is doable with medium effort, but we'd have to actively > convince people to do that, and package maintainers

Re: RFC: creating a bison-announce list

2018-12-26 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 24.12.18 18:00, Akim Demaille wrote: > Recent history has shown that bugs are discovered too late, in a rather > incremental fashion (I'm about to release 3.2.4), mostly revealed when Bison > is finally updated in the main distros. I believe that much of this could > have been avoided

RFC: creating a bison-announce list

2018-12-24 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi all, Recent history has shown that bugs are discovered too late, in a rather incremental fashion (I'm about to release 3.2.4), mostly revealed when Bison is finally updated in the main distros. I believe that much of this could have been avoided if Bison users were given a chance to try a b