Duncan Webb wrote: > Robert Buchholz wrote: > >> On Monday 25 August 2008, Duncan Webb wrote: >> >>> Announcing that the new releases of Freevo-1.7.9 and Freevo-1.8.2 are >>> available for downloading from sourceforge.net, >>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=46652 >>> >> Hi Duncan, >> >> in freevo/branches/rel-1, r10827 introduced a bug that would crash >> Freevo when invoking mplayer using some MPLAYER_*O_DEV_OPTS. >> Fortunately, you fixed this in r10970 three days ago. >> >> Since I planned to push 1.8 updates to Gentoo soon, I was wondering if >> you consider the bug bad enough to push an 1.8.2.1, or whether I should >> simply apply the patch. >> > > Nice question, it is quite a bad bug, I suggest that you apply the patch. > > It's a bit of a shame that very few people do any testing... > > Cheers, > Duncan I think that reverting to a more traditional release cycle might help this. Next release would you consider doing rc releases? Users are much more likely to notice and test these, emailing the lists just a few days before a release won't ever get the same response I fear.
I'd also think that this may be bad enough to warrant a 1.8.2.1 as package maintainers themselves often won't notice these issues, they'll just package up the latest release. These then get included in distros and often end up biting people as the try out freevo for the first time which obviously isn't what we want. This just ends up reflecting poorly on all the work you personally do to keep freevo moving forward which is a real shame in my eyes as you do a great job. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
