On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Andreas Beck wrote:
>> It has been almost a year since the last beta. Is there a beta release in
>> the near or distant future? Maybe even one that could claw its way toward
>> being a stable release?
>
>O.K. - we should hold an IRC meeting again. I had planned one with Marcus to
>push a new release out of the door, but we seem to be unable to find a
>common date. I'd suggest we do a "big" IRC meeting again, and well, if only
>one of us is there, I think it should suffice for authorizing a new release.
>
Would it have to be a "big" IRC meeting couldn't it just be arrainged via
email.
like say
feature freaze -> April 20th
code freaze -> May 14th
Then the frozen code say libggi2.5beta or something could enter the road
to stability. There could still be a development branch but the rest of
the world could use the final stable release. Would that be libggi1? or 2?
since there was never a stable release. Anyway, the development could take
up the 3.0 goal and small changes could still be applied back to the
stable lib if say a new driver was added.
The big question really is how much the API is going to change. I dont
follow the core development to know how volitil the API is. If it has not
changed much and doesn't look like it is going to change much an arbitrary
nightly build could be plucked out and "turned into" the new beta release.
When ever the beta is chosen I will make RPMs out of them and submit them
to the ftp site. I will also make rpms out of all sorts of other stuff
that uses the beta like XGGI.
- Bryan Patrick Coleman
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Triad Linux Users Group
Octagram Linux
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