On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:10, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote: > Stephan Richter wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007 09:36, Martijn Faassen wrote: > >> I think tagging things in svn is a minimal requirement, though. I > >> understood that some of this stuff wasn't tagged? > > > > I agree. And Roger simply forgot. As Marius pointed out, as we do more > > releases, problems like this will occur frequently. Making mistakes is > > human, so let's develop a tool that does some basic checking. > > I'm not yet convinced that we will have more releases. We have more > releases now because we're trying to get to stable versions. After that, > the eggs are on their own and I think we'll make much less releases.
I would not hold my breath on this one, but I have unsupported hope you are right. ;-) > But even if we got more releases to do, I don't see the problem. With > more releases we'd get more practice and make less mistakes. This is logically incorrect. It is the same as saying: More guns make us safer. The error rate would have to drop by the same factor the releases are increased, which I do not think will be the case, especially since more people are doing releasing now., > One of the things we should realize in this process is that -- even > though setuptools makes it so damn easy to register and uplaod stuff to > PyPI -- releases are actually important business. They can't just be > created in a jiffy. They require attention and concentration. And a > well-defined process. I agree. But all the process in the world will not drop the error rate to zero. I think that Marius' tool suggestion is very good and I also think we should seriously look at how Linux distributions manage that process. Having some staging mechanism would be good. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com