Michael Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Respectfully disagree.  Once a release has been rolled, heck once
> we've checked in the uncommented IS_DEV_BUILD SpamAssassin.pm and
> Changes file, then it's out there and effectly released and
> available.  If you come back later and update a file or make a change
> and re-release you'll never know if someone has the old release or the
> new one.

I think there is something to this point of view, but it's not so bad to
start over if we haven't made tarballs.

> Version numbers are cheap, might as well use them.  We're an open
> source project, we should be releasing more often and earlier.
> Setting things up so that anyone can declare a proper time to release
> and then going off and doing it helps with that policy.  If a release
> has a problem, you scrap it and move onto the next.

I agree that they are cheap.  We've had the three +1 policy for a while,
nothing new with that.  I'm just hoping to answer this sort of question
*before* it comes up and we're all stressed out about it.  I can go
either way at this point.
 
> It's a widely accepted practice for other Apache project, such as APR
> and Httpd.  I really wish I could find the original thread when Greg
> Stein proposed it, it was really well thought out and put things in
> the right perspective.

That might be good to see.
 
Daniel

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