On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 02:33:18PM -0400, Ista Zahn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I guess what I want to know, and maybe there is no answer, is how long > > should I wait before upgrading to a stable release? > > One strategy is keeping an eye on the mailing list and waiting for bug > reports to die down before upgrading.
I would like to add, the community always needs help, and writing code is not the only way to do that. From your message it seems to me you have a rather elaborate use for Org. It might serve as a great test case. If you follow the list regularly, then you could help by testing the maint branch from time to time (or even master, up to you). You do not need to know how to use git, you have two options: - simply download the tarballs from the gitweb interface (see the "snapshot" links, http://orgmode.org/w/org-mode.git), - use elpa (either GNU, Org's own) As for git, I have included the bash function I use to update Org once a week. If you are interested, feel free to ask me Git questions off-list. function update_org() { pushd ~/build/org-mode # my Org repo and install directory local dorebase=$(git rev-list origin/master..master|wc -l) git stash git checkout master if [[ $dorebase -gt 0 ]]; then git pull --rebase --stat else git pull fi if [ $? == 0 ]; then echo "+++ Check if merged successfully. +++" echo "==> Want to continue?" select yesorno in "Yes" "No"; do case $yesorno in Yes) echo "+++ Building Org-mode $(git branch|egrep '\*') +++"; make compile autoloads info "$@" &> log [ $? -ne 0 ] && echo "+++ Build failed +++" && break; echo "+++ Installing Info files +++"; make install-info break;; No) echo "Aborting on user command."; break;; *) echo "==> Choose Yes or No by typing 1 or 2." esac done else echo "Merge failed, aborting." fi popd } Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.