On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 07:59:16PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 21/03/12 19:48, Vladimir Vuksan wrote: > > I agree with Alex. We are churning through too many versions. I would > > personally be OK with overriding the existing 3.3.2 tag and going with > > 3.3.2 instead of 3.3.4. > > Having been involved in the releases between 3.1.2 and 3.1.7, I accept > some of the responsibility if people did find it problematic > > That is why I put out a test tarball, only tagged 3.3.3dp1, before > tagging 3.3.3 - so people did have 24 hours to evaluate
and that resulted (like in the 3.1.2 to 3.1.7 cycle) in a couple of obvious issues that were found after the "release" tag was made and therefore in a couple releases more. which probably point to the fact (which keeps getting ignored) that the testing community for ganglia is very small (per sourceforge download statistics they were 10 downloads for each on of those prereleases) and not able to respond in the timeline you suggest. specially when : * no information about what has changed is provided, so no one knows where to look * there is no standard battery test to run, neither enough time for testers to build their own package and deploy them in some test cluster to see how they behave. * the target audience for this product are sysadmins, and so providing binaries and making broader announcements (also including the ganglia-users) would be recommended so that prerelease testing is exhaustive. * there has been obviously little testing before making the "release" tar and so those few testers eventually get more tired as the releases keep increasing and demanding they start from scratch each time. the end result of course being that the quality of ganglia at release time is not what I am sure we all would like to see, and far from "perfect". usually package maintainers don't even bother to get involved with prereleases, but would be IMHO and important part of that testing if we are to aim for a quality final releases. Carlo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
