[darcs-users] Proposal: staging before release

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Wed May 12 02:55:46 UTC 2010


Salvatore Insalaco <kirby81 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

As far as Debian goes, I think it's unnecessary.



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