On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:40:32AM +0900, sf...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have just released aufs2-base1-2.6.27.tar.bz2 on SourceForge. > > This is the first trial to release AUFS by SourceForge File Release > System. I am not sure that I will continue the release by CVS. > I just want to say that generally, real releases are always a good idea.
In this special case, you distribute a patch-only release. While this may be OK for people compiling their own kernels, it makes life for packagers harder. Furthermore, the tarball has no clear version number. This also creates problems for packagers. Also I generally advise everyone to use a SCM for everything they code, and provide releases in form of tarballs. Compared with CVS, tarball-only releases may be "much superior" (as Linus said), but it is also better to have a SCM as well ( whereas git is the fastest of all). And a decentralized is really the best. The answer is "commit often, commit early, release once a week". You also have very cool bisect features, which makes it very easy to locate problems. Therefore, please do not stop to provide normal releases, or adapt a completely new release scheme, including releases with source trees. Also see http://wiki.debian.org/SoftwarePackaging for some more information on software packaging. Thank you very much for aufs. -- Julian Andres Klode - Free Software Developer Debian Developer - Contributing Member of SPI Ubuntu Member - Fellow of FSFE Website: http://jak-linux.org/ XMPP: juli...@jabber.org Debian: http://www.debian.org/ SPI: http://www.spi-inc.org/ Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/ FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org/
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