On 05/02/2011 12:20 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 02/05/2011 15:43, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit : >> Sounds like a good idea in general, one which might even strengthen >> branch's >> (i.e., branch-20x/stable's) stability. The only concern I have is >> that this >> requires that people actively use and test branch (as opposed to >> trunk and >> released versions). I am not sure if we have enough (interested) >> people for >> this model, but I would be glad to be proven false. > > +1. The main problem I see is the lack of resource, mainly in terms of > people involved. It may be the we can entice more people from > lyx-users to try branches out. > > One nice way of doing that would be to provide nightlies of branch for > the main architectures. I wonder how difficult it would be (depending > on the architecture, of course). > Commits to branch/experimental would probably be relatively rare, so I doubt this would have to be done all that often. And if we advertised them as alphas or something of the sort, that might well entice people. We just have to make it painless.
I'd be happy to make rpms, if I knew how to do so.... Richard
