Re: About sodipodi

Hello!

Dan Schutzner kirjutas P, 29.02.2004 kell 01:27:
> On to your request for critique of style - I'm a huge proponent of release
> early/often. I consider an ideal situation where the occassional official
> release, as stable, exists, but with daily builds w/ cvs changelogs
> visible available as well. The recognition that they'll be less stable (in
> all likelihood) than the stable release would exist, but would allow for
> quick hammering-on by the unwashed masses - leading to more bug reports,
> etc.

OK, maybe it depends, what we call 'release' - is is just nightly
tarball, or version that is supposed to be better than previous
release.
The main problem with RERO is, that there will be really many
broken releases. Now, as distros do not have time to test all
programs thoroughly, these may randomly find their way into
distros. What may result in PR disaster, as people are starting
to depend more and more on what distros provide them...

> I'm willing to compile from cvs, but frankly consider it a pain when a
> binary is available - and if using a binary means being a few days/weeks
> behind in featureset, i generally will live with that. Additionally, on
> the win32 side, most would not have the tools needed to compile.
> 
> I guess i'm suggesting automated daily builds.

Hmmm... sounds good idea, although I do not know, whether anyone
is able to do Win32 daily builds (CVS is often broken for win32,
as main development happens in Linux, and people cannot always
check for compatibility before commits). I may try to make weekly
ones myself still.

> I'd love to PS this with a bunch of feature requests, but instead I'll
> keep it to that.

You may scan, whether they are in SF feature tracker.

Maybe we should create feature request voting system?

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski




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