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> > At 10:42 AM 8/14/01 +0200, Michel Lehon wrote:
> > >> From: Weiqi Gao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >> On 13 Aug 2001 22:08:50 +0000, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> > >> > ...I suggest that we mandate a code freeze starting N days
> > >> > before the release. At the start of the freeze I build a
> pre-release
> > >> > distro, and it will be labelled as a pre-release (PR suffix maybe?)
> > >> > During those N days (2 days, 3 days?) everyone will have an
> > >> > opportunity to test the release, and find those bad bugs that
> > >> > somehow never showed up before.
> > >>
> > >> That sounds like a very good idea. And I have seen other Apache
> > >> projects doing it. (Except that they are not calling it
> "PR". This is
> > >> another instance where Apache management should probably
> > dictate all sub
> > >> projects to use a uniform name for the pre-releases.)
> > >
> > >How about beta releases ? like they do for Tomcat, Cocoon, ...
> > >The beta cycle would be nice for bug fixes, user feedback, and
> > integration
> > >with other projects.
> >
> > I don't want to call these things "betas" or "alphas", since
> they aren't.
> > The purpose isn't really different, though, so I'm not
> religious over it.
> > Open-source has fuzzied the meanings up anyway.
> >
> > The pre-release period is meant to be quite short. Weiqi points
> > out that we
> > should RERO (Release Early, Release Often); he's quite right.
> > We've tried to
> > release at least once a month, and maybe even every 2 weeks,
> without much
> > success to date. But if we were releasing once a month I
> wouldn't want to
> > see more than 3 or 4 days allocated to a pre-release code
> freeze, myself.
>
> I think it would be nice to have something like
> code freeze + release, lets call it CF (like code freeze)
> have one week to test it, integrate with other projects...
> do a release without the CF suffix ?
>
even better how about using the same convention as Xalan2
they do Developer releases just for that purpose...
Developer feedback and early user comments...
and it seems to work.
Michel.
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