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From: ludovic.courtes@laas.fr (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: Guile Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>,
	Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Subject: Re: Stable releases
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:55:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wt58hwfu.fsf@laas.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87psb2bcq9.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:21:02 +0000")

Hi,

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> Well we have always had a strict stable policy until very recently, so
> there should already be evidence one way or the other.  I don't have
> any numbers, but I am pretty sure (anecdotally) that we have had most
> users sticking to the stable releases, and a smaller number going
> unstable by using either CVS or the nightly snapshots.

Good point.

> If your main concern is getting new stuff out to the users who want to
> experiment with it, I would have thought that making unstable releases
> would meet that concern.  Does it?  As I asked before: is there some
> way that we can specify when or how we would make an unstable release,
> that would give you enough confidence about new stuff being made
> available?

Well, I think you're right, this should work well.  But we should
probably produce more unstable releases than for the 1.7 series.  :-)

As for the criteria for making an unstable release, I don't know.  I
guess the main criterion would be convenience.

Thanks,
Ludovic.


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-04  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17 21:38 Stable releases Neil Jerram
2006-11-20  1:46 ` Rob Browning
2006-11-21 21:39   ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-22  6:47     ` Rob Browning
2006-11-27 22:44       ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-30  5:57     ` Rob Browning
2006-12-02 14:06       ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-20 13:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-20 17:39   ` Rob Browning
2006-11-21 21:54     ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-22  7:16       ` Rob Browning
2006-11-22 13:37       ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-23 18:05         ` Rob Browning
2006-11-27 22:40           ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-28  9:01             ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-12-02 14:21               ` Neil Jerram
2006-12-04  8:55                 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2006-11-27  8:39         ` Ludovic Courtès
2006-11-21 21:33   ` Neil Jerram
2006-11-21 12:06 ` Greg Troxel
2006-11-21 22:01   ` Neil Jerram

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