2009/5/9 Christian Ohm <chr....@gmx.net>: > I don't think releasing 2.1.4 will result in much less _useful_ testing for > 2.2. Yes, you might get more people to try 2.2, but if they are "tricked" into > using it they'll just see it's unstable yet, and go back to 2.1 (if 2.1 isn't > too unstable for them either) instead of giving useful bugreports. But with a > 2.1.4 release those who don't want to test 2.2 get a better 2.1.
What is it now? Devu, Christian, Kreuf, Per, me in support cybersphinx neutral Buggy, stiv against Let's just release 2.1.4. Seriously, I've never heard of dropping support for the current release branch just because you want everyone else playing the development branch, no matter how close the development branch is to release (and, again, I don't consider "three weeks if we're lucky and nothing goes wrong" to be "close"). > OTOH announcing the 2.2 releases on more than just our website (Freshmeat has > only 2.1.3, the Linux Game Tome is at 2.1.1 for example) will reach a far > wider > audience and thus potential testers. Incidentally, the only reason Freshmeat has 2.1.3 instead of 2.1.0 is because I submitted it to them. These "aggregator" sites should really do their aggregation themselves, instead of waiting for us to do it for them. <_< 2009/5/10 Dennis Schridde <devuran...@gmx.net>: > Am Sonntag, 10. Mai 2009 14:10:00 schrieb Christian Ohm: >> So you want to do release builds then as well? I thought it was "no release >> builds before release", not sure who said that though. > In fact it is very different from that: Always release builds, never anything > else. > I don't want to repeat the reasons again, so if you forgot, just ask me again. I dunno. The policy I've been recommending is (and what we've been doing since 2.1.2, iirc): Release builds only for stable, RC Debug builds only for beta, alpha, everything else Or maybe both for RC. Ensures testers have proper tools for testing and can provide good feedback, but stable is stable enough for widespread use. 'Course, that's just my opinion - I have no idea what official policy is. And yes, I don't think I was here the last time you gave the reasons for "always release builds", so I'd like to hear them again. -Zarel _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
