I am in favor of a 2.0.1 release in the near future, but "immediate" might be too soon. I think we should decide now that there will be a release soon, and put out a request for all outstanding bugs to be reported, and leave it at that for a couple weeks. After that, the release should be done.
What we don't want is to find post-2.0.1 bugs and have to do a 2.0.2 release some time in the future. I was the one who found the ^S bug shortly after the 2.0 release. I am not exactly a typical epic user. I don't think that particular bug is nearly as critical as you make it sound, otherwise a more typical user would have found it at a much earlier date. It certainly should be fixed soon, but I think it can wait another couple weeks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc.foxlink.net operator On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:58:07AM +0100, Edward Brocklesby wrote: > Good morning, > > I would like to propose the immediate release of ircII- > EPIC4 2.0.1, regardless of whether any more "critical" bugs > are uncovered. I would justify this position via the rela- > tively poor state of the 2.0 release, in which several sig- > nificant bugs were reported after the release had been made. > > Consider the typical user of the 2.0 release. Upon > installing the current, tested, released production version > of the client, starting it, and pressing ^S, the poor user > is greeted with a panic screen. The solution, apparently, > is either "don't do that" or "upgrade to the CVS version". > > To me, neither of these options are acceptable. EPIC's > reputation as an "unstable" program are often lamented; I > must wonder if such problems as this are not the exact rea- > son for such a reputation. To have such an easily-triggered > crash is not only inconvenient for users, but, I would say, > an unacceptable situation in what claims to be the produc- > tion version of a mature software product. > > Furthermore, I see no disadvantage to the production of > a new patchlevel release, other than the small amount of > manual effort required to do so; if this effort is so great > that it poses a problem, I would be quite happy to do it > myself! > > Regards, > Edward. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://epicsol.org/mailman/listinfo/list
