On 4/15/05, Brad Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:55:17PM -0400, Nate Thompson wrote: > > According to atrpms.net, it is still .17. I'm sure it'll be updated soon. > > > > While Jarrod has volunteered bravely to be a release engineer after this, > I think a wise policy would be to _not_ make the rpms available soon. > (though the "bleeding from CVS" rpm should be made available right away.) > > Mythtv releases have a flurry of last-minute check-ins, many of which > are fixes but not, as in many other projects, all of them. The releases are > more a checkpoint and a goal -- get in your patches now! > > It might very well be a prudent policy to have as many people run the > cvs or rpm-from-cvs versions at this point, and then build the stable > rpm a week later after all those first-line folks have tried it. > I personally planned to watch for a few days to see if any big bugs were discovered. It isn't meant as a slam to any of the developers... Just seems to happen alot with software releases in general.
I think the CVS RPMs being released right-away, and then the actual release RPMs a day or two later might not be a bad idea. In some ways it would be like issuing "release candidates". Dave ---------------------------------------------------------- My MythTV Box: http://www.dynamicis.com/~superdave/mythtv/ ---------------------------------------------------------- Are Your Friends Lemmings? -- http://www.lemmingshirts.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
