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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> > Than the first question should be, why current system of 
> > devel/test/stable grimoires doesn't solve this? Maybe instead of 
> > pushing from devel to test every week or two, we have to establish 
> > some kind of a "signal" in a spell as to whether it's ready to go into 
> > test/stable? And that wouldn't be just a section guru's call, but 
> > something like "three successful" installs. If sorcery would send back 
> > (non-private) information that such and such spell has just succeeded 
> > installing (or group such messages into packages to send all of it at 
> > once), our "back-end" would push the spell into test after three 
> > successful reports?
>
> I personally look at it as how well tested the current spell with the 
> current version of the software is working with our setup, ie sorcery 
> with all the configuration possiblities that we support.  Even the 
> "three successful" installs method would not prevent something like only 
> the stable version software reaching the stable grimoire.  In fact, I 
> think that might speed up the movement of development version software 
> into the stable grimoire.
>
> Geoff

I think a slightly better explaination might be:
devel = development spell, not development version of the software the 
spell install
test = tested spell
stable = stable spell

Geoff