RFC: Conditions of early access to unreleased

[Michael Pyne]

On Monday, June 04, 2012 00:11:32 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Sorry for breaking threading.  I wasn't subscribed when this was sent, so I
> had to copy/paste from the web archive.

> > > So it turns I'm undecided and don't know if we should un-tighthen the
> > > first
> > > point to something like
> > > 
> > >  * Do not make the packages available to your users (in stable or
> > > 
> > > automatically suggested updates to stable versions) before the official
> > > tarballs are announced
> > 
> > I like this much better.
> 
> If this were the rule, we (in Kubuntu) could have official packages for our
> development release out significantly closer to release than we do as we
> currently have to recompile everything after the packages are public to get
> into the official archive.

I'm assuming this is only referring to modules where the tarballs were 
unchanged from their preview versions, and that tarballs which were re-rolled 
would not be accidentally pushed to users before packages are re-built?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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