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[John Darrington]

----- Forwarded message from Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> -----

Maybe the GNU Coding Standards should (1) tell a maintainer to build a
release candidate before a release, and (2) make an announcement on
platform-testers . Currently neither platform-testers nor release
candidates are discussed in the manual. [1]


This particular [testing] problem is not limited to [one project]. Other
projects do the same, and they also find they have problems after a
release.

In the post-mortem analysis, this is a procedural problem in the
release process. The release process has gaps and needs a control to
contain the risk. In this case I think the control to place is:
document release candidate testing in the manual. That puts everyone
on the same page and ensures some coverage to catch some of these
problems.

Jeff


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