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From: | Ralf Hemmecke |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] Problem building SIlver Axiom on Gentoo Linux |
Date: | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:43:40 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) |
So patches get collected and the Gold copy is built/tested/ported every 2 months or so.
No problem. But we should also start to think about freezing the "next-release-gold", call it "GoldAxiomVersion-x.y-ReleaseCandidate", make it available publicly and post to the mailing list that everyone should test it on his/her system to find problems. If there is no problem reported anymore, Tim could turn the release-candidate into a true Gold-release.
That process would share the workload of Tim and prevent things that happened once with releasing a broken Gold system.
Gold gets released every couple months. Silver can do a simple diff -r --brief Gold Silver to see exact changes.
That is too late. People want to see the hottest edge. next-release-gold == silver/trunkI am very much in favour of that. And I thought that was the idea from the beginning---mirror the hottest edge on sourceforge.net.
If I took on the responsibility of doing immediate patches to Silver that would completely negate the whole "update rate"balance discussion. You can't just throw a patch at a system. You have to check it. That takes time even for simple patches. For instance, I have a simple fix to the Makefiles for libXpm that makes the system compile correctly on FC5. However, it breaks Redhat systems. So if I just applied the patch to Silver without testing some of the users would have broken code.
Tim, if someone is willingly not taking the Gold release, but decides for Silver==(all patches applied to the latest Gold release), s/he should know that things might be broken. But that is not a bug, it's a feature. People could help to figure out why the system doesn't build and could supply another patch to you. If they just see Gold and not the latest patches+bugfixes, people might find just bugs that are already fixed. It's a waste of time and might make people turn away from Axiom.
There are things that only I can do
For example? Ralf
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