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[George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>]

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On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 18:24:10 +0300
Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org> wrote:

> On Monday 03 September 2007 02:33:24 Pol Vinogradov wrote:
> > GIT changes to master grimoire by Pol Vinogradov
> > <vin.public AT gmail.com>:
> >
> >  audio-drivers/alsa-driver/DETAILS   |    4 ++--
> >  audio-drivers/alsa-driver/HISTORY   |    3 +++
> <snip>
> >     audio-drivers/alsa-driver:
> >
> >     DETAILS: updated to 1.0.15rc1
> 
> I believe I've mentioned this before, and I apologise if this sounds
> like nagging, but I would rather not have release candidates of the
> ALSA stuff in the grimoire. The ALSA project releases new stable
> versions often enough, and I can't see any good reasons for pushing
> RCs to our public branch. If you want to be an ALSA tester please use
> a local grimoire.
> 
> Although the ALSA release candidates are usually quite mature, there
> _are_ bugs introduced in them every once in a while. I use one of my
> SMGL boxes for audio work, and I don't enjoy taking that kind of
> risks. And although I know how to use `sorcery hold`, I don't think
> that should be expected from me as a user. The grimoire should _not_
> contain release candidates, except for the rare cases where a stable
> alternative does not exist.
> 
> This posting is meant not as criticism of your work with the ALSA
> spells, which is undoubtedly of great value to us all. I just wish
> that you would stick to stable versions from now on.
> 

Or just create a version of the spell that offers the devel/rc versions
and defaults to the stable release.  There are many examples of this
and I agree that for the most part the test grimoire should only
contain stable/released versions.  There are always exceptions though
that should be handled on a case by case basis.

George Sherwood
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