Re: Release? was Re: Stepping back as Zinf Debian

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:06:57 -0800, Kristian Kvilekval <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:12, Robert Hart wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>>
>> > That would help, but a release before that would be even more useful
>> > (so I can mail all the bugsubmitters of old bugs, and ask them if they
>> > can still reproduce the bug).
>>
>> Was going to say the same thing myself. The difference between the last
>> release and current CVS is just too huge right now.
>>
>> I think we (myself included) are too good at starting things, and not 
>> very
>> good at finishing things.
>>
>> Do we have any uptodate & definitive list of release critical bugs. A
>> quick scan of the list on sf doesn't seem to bear any relationship to
>> reality...
>
> Yes, there should have been a release, at the latest, around
> the 1st of January.
>
...
>
> So in nutshell, thoughts on the following (and/or help)
>
> 1.  Release CVS as is (this week).
> 2.  Release CVS after disabling musicbrowsermm and mdb (in a few weeks).
> 3.  Freeze CVS except for gtk2 bug fixes and release end of february.
> 4.  Push for musicbrowsermm and mdb (release when it's ready).
>
> I am actually for #1, with a nice list of requirements to compile from
> source.   #2 would take some automake, configure work.  #3 I am not sure
> what bugs really exists, as I use the gtkmm browser more often these
> days, please list the bugs you know of.
>

Why not do some form of beta/pre release, which would be a snapshot of the 
CVS as is. This would hopefully allow for time to find and sort out the 
remaining gtk2 related bugs, while still having a release of some sort 
done. Then, hopefully, you could do #2 in a couple of weeks as a full 
release, with bug fixes.

Then, looking even further ahead (probably a mistake),  you could aim for 
a beta/full release cycle for #4 sometime in the next couple of months.

What do people think?

David
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