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