Perhaps frequent n.nn-rc-n releases? Mozilla and the Linux kernel seem to make good use of the release candidate (rc) release system.
Tad > > Looking over the release mail, I agree with Alan that we should try to > get more frequent releases. We have the "release early" thing down, but > we also need to "release often". However, we should certainly avoid the > disasters of hasty releases in 0.86, 0.88.1, 0.90. We should probably > in the future make a CVS branch when we start a release cycle, so > development can continue while a release is being tested. While it will > take a little more effort to keep the two versions in reasonable sync, > we cannot afford to spend month and a half out of seven months just on > release. It may well enough up with a release cycle almost continually > in progress, as > improvements done during the previous cycle might be enough to start the > next cycle immediately. It may be a good idea to have one person almost > permanently in charge of release handling. > > -Lars > > -- > Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor > "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I > |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say > it." | Where are we going, and > --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the > handbasket? > _______________________________________________ > Dia-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html > Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
