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Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0
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David Bateman |
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Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0 |
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Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:31:06 +0200 |
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Thomas Weber wrote:
> Am Montag, den 08.10.2007, 12:34 +0200 schrieb Soren Hauberg:
>
>> John W. Eaton skrev:
>>
>>> On 7-Oct-2007, Soren Hauberg wrote:
>>>
>>> | So, what does that mean? Essentially we have to make some 3.0 release
>>> | candidate release about a week before 3.0 is actually released.
>>>
>>> That's essentially what 2.9.14 was supposed to be, and (RSN) 2.9.15,
>>> etc. It's just that we keep finding things to fix or tweak.
>>>
>> What I was suggesting was really to make a release at some point. Call
>> the a release candidate. And if nothing big comes up in the following
>> week release that. Currently it seems like we keep on fixing bugs, and
>> that nobody really knows when 3.0 is released. This isn't helpful to
>> people who want to create binary distribution. If we want binary
>> distributions on the day of the release, then we need to create an
>> unofficial release sometime before the actual release. This is what I
>> meant with a release candidate.
>>
>> Did that make sense?
>>
>
> Are there objections to start with this process *now*? Bringing a
> package with a new name into Debian can easily take more than a week[1].
> So, we would like to package 2.9.14 as release candidate now, just to
> have a package with the name octave3.0.
>
> Objections?
>
> [1] It needs manual intervention outside the realm of packagers.
>
> Thomas
>
Does a RC release have to have a name like 3.0RC1? Can't we just say
that 2.9.15 is 3.0RC1? Is that sufficient for Debian?
D.
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- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, (continued)
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Søren Hauberg, 2007/10/06
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, John W. Eaton, 2007/10/06
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, 2007/10/06
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Michael Goffioul, 2007/10/07
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Søren Hauberg, 2007/10/07
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Tom Holroyd, 2007/10/07
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, John W. Eaton, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Søren Hauberg, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Thomas Weber, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0,
David Bateman <=
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Rafael Laboissiere, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, John W. Eaton, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Rafael Laboissiere, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Thomas Weber, 2007/10/08
- Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Quentin Spencer, 2007/10/09
Re: 2.9.15 --> 3.0, Peter A. Gustafson, 2007/10/06