Re: 0.8.10?

Jakub Jankowski <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:55:30 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.irssi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2005-01-12, Geert Hauwaerts wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 23:51, Jakub Jankowski wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> How about gathering all known bugs into KNOWNBUGS, then packing it up
>> and releasing 0.8.10?
>
> You can take the release canidates from http://www.irssi.org/files

*I* know. But many vendors don't like using RC's for their 
distributions/products.

>> A lot more users will be able to test current code and thus -- we'll get
>> more reports about bugs which should be fixed in 0.8.11.
>
> There's no reason for that, http://bugs.irssi.org is filled with bugs.

You didn't get the point. Releasing 0.8.10 => more users using new code 
=> more bugs occur => more reported bugs => better 0.8.11 :-)

> A priority would be to fix those bug before releasing in the first place!

Which may take another year... ;^)

>> It's been a really long time since last release, don't make users wait
>> for next one for ages.
>
> When the new site is ready, everything will be updated, fixed and more
> useful things added; including proper docs and info about release
> canidates.

Bah, always the same story. ;-P

Cheers.

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