"Horst H. von Brand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
>
> Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory...
Ok, thanks for the suggestion.
The preview RPMs for i386 and x86_64 and an SRPM are available at:
/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
The tarball for 1.5.0-rc2 is found at:
/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.0.rc2.tar.gz
along with tarballs of preformatted htmldocs and manpages.
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