Hi all, Recent history has shown that bugs are discovered too late, in a rather incremental fashion (I'm about to release 3.2.4), mostly revealed when Bison is finally updated in the main distros. I believe that much of this could have been avoided if Bison users were given a chance to try a beta before the final release, or even if Bison users were warned about a new release earlier.
Reading any of the existing list would let you know that a release in ongoing, however, no list is really appropriate: - bug-bison is not a list people like to read - bison-help is low traffic, but mostly to get help from kind people - bison-patches has too much traffic Maybe creating bison-announce, which would be only about major events (releases and prereleases), would help? You guys, in To:, have been involved in recent bugs. Would you consider subscribing to such a list, and occasionally give a try to Bison before it hits the distros? I'm asking because this list would be useless if no-one subscribes to it and if nobody checks the tarballs. Of course, it would be totally fine not to do it! the "There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE" bit applies to you just as to us ;-). It's just an honest poll, not a way to ask any form of commitment from you (and more generally, of Bison users). WDYT? Cheers, and merry xmas! Tonight, Santa's sleigh will be pulled by Bisons. (Apparently, someone already had this idea, https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/40/5b/72405bb4709ced0ba53636582c2a10ee.jpg). _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
