On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:41:33PM -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > My own primary reason is that for a number of packages I maintain > (because I use specific features/components of them), is I don't use > enough of the package to consider even my daily usage a fair gauge of > stability. This is even more of a problem with applications that have > prolific featuritis and no complete test suite for those features. > I just don't trust the application enough to mark it stable yet. > > I believe I speak for most developers when I say we would like more > stability reports for packages (once they have passed their 30 day > testing window). So keep filing them!
Well, if even you, the maintainer of a package cannot properly judge its stability, how is user Joe to know whether he should report a package as stable? Or do you actually get reports like "feature X in package Y seems stable for me on my box"? -- stefan PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0 -- [email protected] mailing list
