Re: [Nano-devel] nano-2.4.3pre1 ready for testing

[Chris Allegretta]

[now with -devel copied]
Interesting suggestion.

Does anyone find value in having a dedicated 2.4 / stable series?
Distribution maintainers especially, what say ye?

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Benno Schulenberg
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>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015, at 08:21, Chris Allegretta wrote:
>> So I was getting things in order for the release, but was not in the
>> right state of mind for where I thoughts backports were. I did a very
>> rushed job of putting things into 2.4, [...]
>
> Why do backports at all?  Why not simply release HEAD?  It will be
> stabler than whatever you can hastily put together.  And will have
> more features.
>
> Having an even and an uneven series, a stable one and a development
> one, is old-fashioned.  The idea today is: quick releases.  Firefox
> churns out a release every six weeks, the kernel every two months.
> I don't know the cadence of Chrome, but it must be something similar.
>
> If it had been up to me, we would have had a release almost every
> month over the past year.  Meaning that most of the fixes would have
> been in Wily by now.  What did I make all these efforts for?
>
> Benno
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