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- From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:30:01 -0700
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 12:01 pm, Andrew wrote:
>
> Im envisioning the following release "cycle" for sorcery:
>
> *develop new features/fix bugs as they come up (however long we want)
>
> *decide on a mostly fixed release date
>
> *push "devel" into "test" and give test a 1.xx.x-rc1 version
>
> *allow the "test" release to sit for at least one week
I agree w/Arjan. I think it should be longer, but I suspect that is a detail
to the overall issue of, "Should we?"
> *meanwhile new development can continue on devel (eg i dont have to yell
> at anyone for putting untested changes in before a release)
>
> *after a sufficient amount of testing and updating the "test" branch as
> needed (seperately from devel), push test code into stable and form the
> release 1.xx.0
>
> *at this point any new issues that come up with the release can be fixed
> in the test release and a new 1.xx.x-rc1 can be made, subsequent fixes
> thereof can be put into this release rather than blindly putting them
> into a 1.xx.x release. (repeat this as necessary over the lifetime of
> the 1.xx release)
And fixes back-ported to devel?
> The final goal in all this is to have a more stablized "stable" release
> and thus that last step will be less necessary. This of course all hinges
> on the desire for users to use the new test release.
>
> Comments/questions/suggestions?
> Good idea? Bad idea?
>
> -Andrew
Good idea! I vote, "Yes."
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[SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Andrew, 06/01/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Arjan Bouter, 06/01/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff, Andrew, 06/01/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Jason Flatt, 06/01/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff, Andrew, 06/01/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Andrew, 06/01/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff, Arjan Bouter, 06/01/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Eric Schabell, 06/02/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff, Andrew, 06/02/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff, Andrew, 06/02/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] more sorcery stuff,
Arjan Bouter, 06/01/2004
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