It's easy enough to disable the "Development Release" section of the download widget until a development snapshot or release candidate is ready. We could also replace the download list with a link to http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/ but that would require a bit of navigation on the part of the user.
On 11/7/11 8:39 AM, Jaap Keuter wrote: > > It seems as if the model of 'just hold off the new development release > until That New Feature(sm) (the next best thing after sliced bread) is > in' doesn't really work. > Like you said we opted to wait for the multi-interface capture to be in, > and even though Irene is working hard on it, it hasn't materialized in > solid form just yet. > > In practice the development release becomes stale as soon as the next > branch comes out, and remain so until the next one is about to come along. > So what to do? I say, remove the development pane with a new branch, and > restore it once we have really something new to show, like a genuine RC. > In the mean time, development builds (at the bleeding edge) remain > available, so for the persistent ones there's always new stuff available. > > Gerald, I know this makes your release TODO list yet another item > longer, something you don't like. I am sorry about that, maybe I've got > some suggestions about that later. > > Thanks, > Jaap > > On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:07:44 -0700, Gerald Combs wrote: > >> Excellent question. We were holding off on making a development release >> over the summer until the multi-interface capture support settled down. >> Is there any reason to delay 1.7.0 at this point? >> >> On 11/2/11 12:51 AM, Dirk Jagdmann wrote: >> >>> So today somebody at my company wanted to check the latest Wireshark. >>> Looking at http://www.wireshark.org/download.html [1] he read the >>> description literally which said that the 1.6.0rc2 is the latest >>> development release. So he figured it might be newer than the fresh >>> 1.6.3 release... I think we can remove that old release candidate, or >>> alternatively put a daily/weekly tarball of trunk on that page. ---> >>> Dirk Jagdmann ^ doj / cubic ----> http://cubic.org/~doj [2] -----> >>> http://llg.cubic.org [3] >>> >> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> > Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
