On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:49:13PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I'm not worried enough to suggest pulling it back, but it's something we > > should keep an eye on during the -rc period. > > True. I actually think that it is probably a good idea to unleash > this kind of thing as quickly as possible to the real world. Those > outside the project, or even inside it, tend to only discover issues > after a feature release is made, so while I am generally in favor of > merging a new and potentially disruptive change in an early batch > after a feature release to 'master' (which would give us enough time > to fix things up until the next release), I do not think that > approach would help third-party interop issues very much.
Yeah, I do have the feeling that not many people really exercise our -rc candidates. I'm not sure how to improve that. We could try to push packagers to make them available (and I think Jonathan already does for Debian's "experimental" track). But ultimately I think it is not a packaging/availability question, but just that most people do not bother until there is a real release. -Peff
