Mark Phippard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Hyrum K. Wright
> <hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>> Mark Phippard wrote:
>>> Just a reminder, Hyrum has said he still plans to cut the 1.5.1
>>> tarball on Wednesday. There are a lot of items in STATUS that need
>>> votes, including all of the fixes for the merge problems we have
>>> identified in 1.5.0. It would obviously be nice to get these into
>>> this release.
>>>
>>> It would also help if you could take the time to run the tests on the
>>> 1.5.x branch, particularly the bindings tests, in advance of cutting
>>> the tarball so that there are no surprises.
>> (Mark keeps beating me to the punch on sending out these emails. At least I
>> don't have to be the sole project nag now. :P )
>>
>> Yes, I'm still planning on cutting the 1.5.1 release tarball this Wednesday.
>> Several of the committers have indicated they'll be at OSCON (myself
>> included), and that may mean that folks won't have too much time to test a
>> release until the weekend or the first part of next week. If people think
>> that this will be a problem, I'm willing to push the date back a few days,
>> which would give additional time for reviewers to review, because testing
>> would be delayed anyway.
>>
>> Unless I hear otherwise, though, I'm still planning for Wednesday.
>
> Absent any strong dissent from other committers, I think it is largely
> your call. While I would really like to see all these merge fixes get
> into 1.5.1, I also like the idea of drawing a line in the sand and
> sticking to it. If we don't get the fixes in then that is our own
> fault and we'll just have to get it done for 1.5.2 and spend another
> month answering to the problems our users are having.
Oh, I totally agree, but this is more a question of logistics and not one of
"let's hold the release for this one last patch". From a pragmatic
point-of-view, if the actually testing and signing will be held up by some
quasi-foreseeable event, we might as well postpone rolling the tarball. This
has the serendipitous consequence that it gives reviewers more time, and hence
more stuff gets into the release.
That's all I'm sayin'.
-Hyrum
Received on 2008-07-22 04:26:03 CEST