[darcs-users] Proposal: staging before release

Salvatore Insalaco kirby81 at gmail.com
Tue May 11 07:07:28 UTC 2010


Hi guys,
I know that this may be unpopular, but now that we have "official"
packages (on Windows and soon on OS X) I propose this change on the
release policy:

Make the "final" (no RC, the final tar.gz) release of darcs available
to packagers one week before releasing to the general public.

This could have two nice effects:
1) We can try to release source and binaries together.
2) We can catch some nasty platform-related last-minute bugs. This is
particularly valuable on minor releases, that don't get the usual "RC"
treatment.

What do you think about it?

Salvatore


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