Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > > increase the number of testers. > > ... > > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a > > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall. > > One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends > just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts > to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not > like to get "beta" installed for them.
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