On Tuesday 22 February 2005 02:47 pm, Brad Templeton wrote: > If the snapshot in the release has a "crash on delete" bug I would put that > in the major class.
It doesn't crash, it just refuses to delete recordings that don't exist. Takes a bit of time to time out while it retries things, but, it certainly doesn't crash. > I do think their case is compelling. I believe a good approach, which I > know you have said you don't like, would be to take a snapshot at a good > time, put it out as 0.17-rc, tag it in CVS, and then apply only bug > fixes to that branch of CVS while continuing the main branch. Then, > after a while, release 0.17 for the atrpms and knoppmyths of the world. Bugs don't get fixed without people testing them. People won't test them if it's just a branch in CVS, as this entire thread shows. In my experience, people won't test an actual pre-release, either, for the same reason they won't test CVS now. > Using CVS is not a good alternative for many users. Leave aside > that not all are at the skill level to do it, a live CVS is > deliberately unstable. Bugs can be introduced one day that majorly > break things, ideally fixed very quickly but at any time they can be > there. > > One idea that might make sense is to have somebody track when serious > bug reports are low, and throw tags into the cvs server to declare that > point a suitable testing release. Funnily enough, that's pretty much exactly what I do when I decide to put together a release. I'd link to the bugzilla graph, but, the graph config was eaten when the website switched servers a few months back. =) It's simple, really. If people don't see the need to participate in the development process (which happens to include testing CVS, especially when I've announced that a release is close), then I don't think they have any right to complain about bugs in a release, and certainly shouldn't bitch about how I go about making releases. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
