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Re: release time, Re: lynx-dev LYMessages_en.h


From: dickey
Subject: Re: release time, Re: lynx-dev LYMessages_en.h
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 17:41:57 -0400 (EDT)

> "Soon" is good, but I'd like to ask you to move a little slower than you 
> did for 2.8.0.  You released that in such a hurry that there were two 
> immediate bugfix post-releases.  I believe those confuse the "market" 
I also went through several pre-release fixes, but (as usual) some people
didn't respond to the pre-release (and I don't know how to fix that).
Perhaps we should announce a stable pre-release on some newsgroups once
the documentation and known/resolvable issues are done -- with a time
limit.

> and dilute the appearance of a "stable release version".  It would be 
> better if we held steady for at least a week, preferably two, during 
> which the *only* changes going in are bug fixes.  Maybe any bug fix 
> during the 1st week, then only porting, security, and other major ones 
> in the 2nd. 
>  
> You seem to maintain a backlog of patches, so I imagine it wouldn't be 
> too much more difficult to maintain a longer backlog for this 2-week 
> prerelease period?  Then, once the release is out, immediately apply 
> them to get us started on the 2.8.2dev.1 series... 
>  
> >Bela< 


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Thomas E. Dickey
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