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?)

I can't believe you would suggest this. We found these bugs by luck
and only because we were testing for the release. If we do not get
this out to the users, as I have been screaming for months, we are
never going to get this release done. Waiting another week is nuts.
What tests do you personally intend to run on this build in that time?
 Since we have not released this, what users are testing this?

We need to get the new tarball out ASAP and ideally signed and
released. Obviously that depends on what we find.

-1 on waiting.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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