Re: stable vs. latest

2013-04-09 Thread Slava Zanko
On 04.04.2013 18:05, Egmont Koblinger wrote: Hi Egmont, I notified the maintainer of distrowatch.org, asked him to update the regexps that figure out the latest stable mc release. He told me - and unfortunately I can only agree with him - that the wording on MC's homepage is very confusing.

Re: stable vs. latest

2013-04-04 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Hi guys, I notified the maintainer of distrowatch.org, asked him to update the regexps that figure out the latest stable mc release. He told me - and unfortunately I can only agree with him - that the wording on MC's homepage is very confusing. It mentions two releases, latest and latest

Re: stable vs. latest

2013-02-21 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-02-21 13:42 (GMT+0400) Andrew Borodin composed: On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:33:02 +0100 Egmont Koblinger wrote: Andrew: Is it that soon there will be a 4.9.1.x stable and 4.9.x devel series? No, not soon. 4.8.x series is still continued. 4.9 should be well stable, without major and

Re: stable vs. latest

2013-02-20 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Andrew: Is it that soon there will be a 4.9.1.x stable and 4.9.x devel series? Or you give up this development model and stick to a single branch from now on? If the latter, I think it should be made obvious on the homepage (maybe when 4.8.8 is released), and the Our release workflow page

Re: stable vs. latest

2013-02-19 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Strictly IMHO (I'm not a developer, just a casual contributor): I've also wondered about this... MC follows the standard model of two concurrent branches (devel containing new and riskier changes, vs. stable for obvious bugfixes but no big changes or new features; where every once in a while the

Re: stable vs. latest

2013-02-19 Thread Andrew Borodin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:11 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: Last Debian, Fedora *buntu releases had 4.8.x. Current Gentoo is 4.8.7. Mageia 3 is about to be released with 4.8.7. So, why does the stable/4.8.1.x branch even exist? There is no stable branch anymore. 4.8.1.7 was the last release in