Good message from Mark that is worthy of discussion...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark J Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bill Stoddard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 11:03 AM Subject: Re: Tagging 1.3.21 now > Bill; normally the RM releases a tarball at this stage, so we can test the > whole package (which might be missing files etc). Otherwise anyone > wanting to test has to pull the tree with the right tag and go through the > release process to get a kosher tarball. (there is supposed to be 24 > hours between the release of the tarball on dev.apache.org for testing, > and the real public release) > > Cheers, > Mark > Yes I understand. I am adopting a process tweak that seems to work well for Apache 2.0. People can extract APACHE_1_3_21 to test the obvious things like "will the server compile". If we have minor breakage that can easily be fixed, we make the changes and bump the tag. I put an arbitrary time limit of 24 hours on this phase of the T&R process. At the end of 24 hours, we either abandon the tag (because there were just too many problems) or roll the tarball and start the tarball test cycle. I believe this process results in a slightly reduced workload for the RM (in the cases where the TAG had to be abandonded). Also, missed version numbers look bad to the user community and invariably generates questions like (was 1.3.blah ever released? why not? yadda yadda yadda). Bill
