Re: Our (in)ability to do releases?

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:35:04PM -0400, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> On 7/10/06, Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> wrote:
> >But now that you mention it, we could have released -rc1 with the initial
> >--bdb-txn-nosync bug present (i.e. before Garrett's pool-destruction fix
> >in svnserve) and just noted the problem as a known bug for that release.
>
> That gets us back to the "it's not much of an RC if we know we aren't
> going to release it" problem... Maybe we really need beta releases
> for major version bumps or something like that.
>

Yeah. I was thinking that on the way home. I think we'd have avoided a
lot of the recent stress of trying to release 1.4.0-rc1 if we'd already
put out a 1.4.0-beta1 when we were ready (about 6 weeks ago).

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Mon Jul 10 20:11:59 2006