[bt-devel] Your changes in CVS

[Jaak Ristioja]

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Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Jaak Ristioja wrote:
>> I completely agree that we should branch before beta or RC. I'd prefer
>> that we branch the RC and that branch will only get bug fixes and
>> improved translations.
> 
> The normal convention is that the last RC will not be changed at all
> before the final release. If there will be changes, a new RC is released
> until there are no changes. We haven't followed this convention but
> introduced even new features for an RC which actually would need another
> beta testing phase, and fixed quite many things after RC which would
> need another RC or even beta. My commit of Get Remote Source List
> feature was such (though before RC, not after). One reason I committed
> it too late was that I couldn't have committed it for a long time
> otherwise. But anyways, RCs should be open for important bugfixes only.
> Therefore bug-a-thons and other activities should happen before an RC,
> not after. Otherwise our RCs are actually betas and should be labeled as
> such.

Good point. I think formulating what exactly beta releases and release
candidates are, would help us. I think that what Eeli just wrote about
RC's and betas further demonstrates the need to branch properly.

> On the other hand, I have wondered whether our release schedule is too
> quick. Now the beta and RC releases aren't very useful if they are only
> reminders for developers. It would be more useful to get them in to
> "on-the-edge"  repositories and let eager users test them for a while.
> Two weeks is too short a time for that. We should allow two weeks for
> packaging/publishing and two weeks for testing. It's almost a month. But
> now we have major relases about once a month which is too much.
> 
> I know this is against the "release early, release often" idea, but I
> don't see a rapid release schedule very useful if it makes packagers
> work all the time or users lagging behind when new release have come
> out even when the older one isn't yet packaged.
> 
> This all may of course be my own imagination. Maybe we just understand
> beta, rc and final labels differently. But we should come to a
> conclusion so that we can orientate properly for each release.

I agree. For example I made an ebuild for gentoo for BibleTime 2.3 and
skipped bugging the developers until the latest 2.3.X bugfix, because I
thought it would be impolite to bug them so often.


Jaak
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