KDE 3.2 release cycle

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Wed May 14 12:27:07 BST 2003


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On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:58, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:41:05AM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > it's great that they are available and that their creation is automated,
> > but there are two challenges with ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/snapshots as i see
> > it:
> >
> >  o there is no coordination as to when they are to be tagged. when a
> > person downloads those tarballs, they get recent CVS: broken or not. this
> > makes them worthless as preview releases, which should offer at least a
> > modicum of stability. they wouldn't require the QA / testing that an
> > actual release or even an alpha release gets, but they should be tagged
> > around times when CVS "feels" healthy (fewer crashes, motr new complete
> > features, etc).
>
> Essentially, release management. Without the freezes. Or bug-squashing.
> Or anything, really.

Just try out snapshots till you find one that sort of works, copy it to 
another directory and announce it on the dot.

Cheers,
Waldo
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