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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl AT gmail.com>:
<snip>
> Ok, i can agree that splitting grimoire into two part can lead to some
> problems. This thread was started to discuss our problems. So the
> another one was pointed by sandalle: too much attention is spent on
> test grimoire. Maybe we can change the process of stable release a
> little. Currently test and stable grimoires live in parallel and many
> use test. Example of how we can change this (6 month cycle):
>
> * new grimoire created and populated with latest versions of spells,
> general development (3 month)
> * bug fixing, version updates are not recommended (2 month)
> * freeze, version updates prohibited, integrations handled by grimoire,
> QA leads (1 month)
>
> or in schematic form:
>
> current:
>
> test -> test -> test -> test ->
>          |
>          stable-rc -> stable -> support;
>
> proposed:
>
> test -> stable-rc -> stable; test -> ...
>                       |
>                       support;

We already have this defined in  
http://wiki.sourcemage.org/StableGrimoireUpdate and a proposal for  
monthly releases in  
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.sourcemage.discuss/3953.

-sandalle

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