On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:10 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote: > > >>> Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with the prereleases. > >> Me too ;-) May I suggest to at least slowdown (preview|bugfix) releases > >> enough that there is some more time to find, report and fix bugs? > > > > You mean three months isn't enough? Either we're just unlucky, or > > there's just too few people trying the pres to get out to enough > > corners. > > IMHO, there were too many pre-releses, sometimes with an intervall in > between that was too short. This discouraged me as a tester - the time was > so short beween releases that I didn't feel I had the time to upgrade to > the latest release.
Yes, it got kinda fast towards the end. Is a week long enough? > OTOH, I'm perhaps not a regular tester - I occasionally use Dia for work > and when I encounter a problem I try to report it. So in my case I need to > use something that's reasonably stable. I don't know that we have any "regular testers":) > > I'm not worried about putting out too many releases, it's the time spent > > between them that seems silly. Steffen and I have releasing down to a > > fairly fast process by now, and with the web pages on a wiki, those can > > get updated much faster too. So I'd prefer to have the prereleases be a > > sanity check and just deal more with having post-releases while we > > develop the next cool thing. > > I'm not sure I understand you. Do you do the development in two branches, > a development branch and a stable branch? (So that if for instance a > bug is discovered, it can be fixed in the development branch, backport > the fix to the stable branch and eventually do a semi-release?) More or less. I'd put the release out fairly fast (basically as soon as somebody has tried the pre in practice) and then deal with critical bugs through post-releases. The bugfixes would then get forward-ported to the development branch. This would fit better with the release-early-release-often philosophy. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
