Re: updating for update's sake

2006-01-20 Thread Christian Weisgerber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once upon a time it seemed that these gratuitous updates were frowned upon. Depends what you term gratuitous. Following test (alpha, beta, pre-) releases without a good reason is frowned upon. By contrast, following regular/stable releases looks like a normal part

Re: updating for update's sake

2006-01-17 Thread Nikolay Sturm
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-17]: I'm not trying to start a war or an argument or anything, I am merely curious about $SUBJECT. I (personal opinion) don't like useless updates as they don't buy us anything but just cost time. Seeing the submissions on ports@ I have to admit that we do a lousy

Re: updating for update's sake

2006-01-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:55:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks in advance for any replies... I'm probably just thinking too hard about this. Possibly... High quality updates posted to the list and tested by others probably reduces the amount of time MAINTAINERS need to spend on the whole