On 31/03/14 13:06, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 20:35, Cedric BAIL wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Stefan Schmidt >> <ste...@datenfreihafen.org> wrote: >>> In 1.5h the first stabilization week is over which marks the end of >>> the first cycle in 1.10. >>> >>> People suggested to release a technology preview tarball at this >>> stage. I planned for it on 1.9 but did not do it in the end because I >>> see so much changes coming in the second merge window which makes me >>> wonder if such a tarball would show anything. >>> >>> Would you folks prefer to have one or not? >> >> I think it would be useful for packager especially now that we did >> introduce eolian in the build process. This should help them get ready >> and be sure that our tarball are ok for them when we do start the >> final release cycle. > > Hmm, so it would be more an early tarball release instead of a real > tech preview for users and developers. I wonder if packagers would > really pick it up for early testing. Its 7 weeks before the final > release not sure if they already think about packaging 1.10. > > We would need to make sure that such a package would really only be > used for testing of the packaging itself and not going into any > distribution channels. > > In the end we will only find out when going down this path I fear. I > have the revs from the last commits before the second merge window > opened and will tag it as well as creating tech preview tarballs later > today or tomorrow. > > regards > Stefan Schmidt >
I think this is a waste of time because of what you said, it's 7 weeks away from the release. I believe it's better to just do an alpha before the final freeze, or a pre-alpha a week before that, and have this as the preview. -- Tom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
