Hello. On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 21:53, Cedric BAIL wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Tom Hacohen <tom.haco...@samsung.com> wrote: > > On 31/03/14 13:06, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > >> On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 20:35, Cedric BAIL wrote: > >>> 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.
We do an alpha as soon as the second merge window closes and the stabilization phase begins. Thats only three weeks before the relase though. I guess I will give it a try to find out if people really find it useful. > For most packager, 7 weeks is still short, at least that what I heard > from them. Most of them do there work on the side giving them time to > prepare is I think worth it. Doing the tarballs, uploading them and writing a short announce blurb is easy enough. I going to push thatout today. Depending on the feedback we get we can decide if we will do it again. regards Stefan Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
