On 8/27/21 8:59 PM, Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:32 AM Povilas Kanapickas <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Ralph, > > On 8/18/21 5:56 PM, Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 2021-08-18 3:25 a.m., Povilas Kanapickas wrote: > >... > > Since the majority of users get their releases from their distros, who > > for the most part seem pretty conservative about their SANE > releases, do > > you think we would get sufficient buy-in from distros for the release > > candidates to get much exposure? > > I can certainly cut an RC release on the sane-release PPA so that > people > > using that can get a taster. > > A release candidate is easy to make. The primary reason for it is to > communicate that we think this release is good, so that more people have > reasons to report bugs. If there aren't bugs reported, then we wouldn't > get them if we had a feature freeze on the master branch. > > I don't have a problem with this approach and it is common enough elsewhere. > My only concern was if anyone would actually check an RC release out. > Do you know if there are any distros out there that would be on-the-ball > enough to build an official rc package that users would use?
I think it depends on the distributions, some distributions live near bleeding edge and would release a RC package to their testing release channel. I would be uncomfortable cutting a final release without testing the waters with a RC first. Even if no one uses it we would at least have a process of doing multiple releases on the release branch and if significant issues are discovered afterward we can cut a x.y.1 release. Cheers, Povilas
