Re: 1.5.0-rc1 up for signing/testing

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Paul Burba wrote:
>
> > Given that we have found several serious problems with RC1, in
> > particular these items in STATUS:
> >
> [...]
>
>
> > Shouldn't we push to quickly backport those fixes and roll RC2?
> >
>
> I would suggest letting people continue testing RC1 for a while until the
> rate of finding serious bugs falls off, unless testing is being impeded by
> these bugs. If we just release RC2 right now, we would statistically expect
> serious bugs to be found in it at a similar rate, so what would be the
> point?
>
> (A while might be 1 or 2 weeks?)

Hi Julian,

It's probably obvious that I disagree with waiting, since I suggested
RC2, but I'll come right out and say it: I disagree :-)

Keep in mind that RC1 *never* got enough votes to be made "officially"
public. I'm going on record as -1 for releasing it too, it's simply
broken.

If RC1 had been approved and released for wider testing then I might
agree with you. But it never got to that point.

And not that procedure is everything, but I just looked at HACKING
again and I don't see how quickly going to RC2 in any way violates our
own policies either.

Paul

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Received on 2008-04-10 15:51:11 CEST