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["Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:18:00AM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>:
> > I totally concur here. I think stable grimoire is already not "stable"
> > enough so the efforts should be concentrated on improving the quality of
> > test and stable grimoires. The developement and testing of really
> > experimental stuff should be left for confirmed gurus like you two or
> > for really motivated ppl who can still access Sandalle grimoire or
> > yours. Maybe a wiki page (unless it's already done) on how to access
> > both your grimoires would be adequate.
> 
> Some of the personal grimoires are already listed:
> http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=Personal+Grimoires
> 
> As for stabalizing stable, it'd help if people filed bugs for what was 
> broken in
> stable and note whether or not it was already fixed in test. ;)
> 
> -sandalle

>From what I've experienced, the flaw in the way we update stuff is that
even users in stable are somehow "testing" the stable grimoire because
even if a spell is "clean" in test doesn't insure it will work fine in
stable. 
Of course, I'm pointing this out and I have no immediate solution,
however an idea just occured to me: we could have a distinction between devs
who use stable grimoire (or willingly users) and real "simple" users who
wants the least hassle. For each spell there would be a kind of 
"pre-release" of the stable version for a pool of ppl to test it 
(I would be one of those for example, as I'm using stable grimoire) and,
 say a week later, it would be "officially" released. That could decrease
 the number of annoying glitches users run into when updating.

I'm mainly proposing that for the future, because atm I think we have a
pretty high devs/users ratio, but if smgl really grows to have a large
user base this ration will notably decrease and I guess a lot of users
would be happy to have an smgl which just updates smoothly.

Whadya all think about that?

Cheers,
Mathieu.

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