That is why there are various package categories at ATRrpms... the package could be submitted as bleeding/testing if the packager feels it may not be ready for a general (stable) release.
On 4/15/05, Big Wave Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
