[Kstars-devel] new tarball release policy?

[Jason Harris]

Hello,

Carsten has recently committed a ruby script that makes creating a release 
tarball for KStars very easy.  It's better than svn2dist, because that script 
is not able to package libkdeedu, so basically I have been making release 
tarballs by hand.  

Carsten is going to LinuxTag, and he says that last time, lots of people were 
asking how to download the latest KStars.  So this year, he will be providing 
a snapshot of KStars from the current SVN (trunk).  He also suggested we post 
a news item about it on our webpage.

However, this would be the first time we've ever released a tarball for which 
we hadn't done any systematic QA testing.  I think this testing is important, 
but I'm also excited about being able to provide recent snapshots to 
interested users, who could provide timely feedback on the stuff we are 
currently working on.

So, I propose that we add a "snapshot" series to our download section, but 
keep it separate from the latest "stable" release download, and add prominent 
text that this code hasn't been vetted against bugs.  I would set up a cron 
job to use Carsten's script to make a new snapshot and upload it to my 
webserver every week.

Any feedback?

Jason

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