2009/1/18 Doug Philips <[email protected]>
> On or about Sunday, January 18, 2009, at 09:24AM, TK Soh indited:
>
> >It takes a lot of energy to cut one release of TortoiseHg, and it's
> >not really something I can afford very often. If anyone would like to
> >volunteer to take care of this, then maybe we can make the release
> >process more 'formal', ie. RC before final release.
> >
> >Hopefully thing will be simpler by the time we are done simplifying
> >the build process.
>
> I believe this is a critically serious problem.
> If the main developer(s) find the process so hard that they have to do it
> only when necessary, that makes it virtually impossible for a potential
> part-time contributor to step up, change something and test it before
> submitting a patch.
It is true that build an installer takes a lot of effort, but for
contributors there is an alternative route: Installation via source code.
There is a step by step instruction [1] on the home page, which is not too
difficult. Once this is done, it is easy to contribute individual dialogs,
etc. You will not be able to build an installer, but you can still test the
code you write.
Regards,
Peer
[1] http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/InstallingTortoiseHg.html
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