Sigfred Heversen wrote on Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:14:42PM +0200: > On Friday 13 October 2006 20:22, Stefan Klein wrote:
>> Just a shy question - if version 4 CDs have been shipped already, >> there *should* be a downloadable version laying around somewhere, >> shouldn't it ? > Those pre-ordering the CD sets gets a preferential treatment ;-) > Sometimes Theo is extra nice and makes the version downloadable > a few days before official release. Do not forget that "releasing" means more than just "putting up files that have long been available on the web". Since the time 4.0-release was tagged, bugs may have been fixed in 4.0-current. Even if such fixes have already been backported to 3.9-stable, 4.0-stable does not yet exist. So one of the things to be done at release time is a maintenance step: Decide what the initial difference between 4.0-release and 4.0-stable ought to be, if any difference is required. To view the same thing from a different perspective: Running 4.0-release before Theo officially announced the release amounts to running unsupported code. Release is called release for a purpose... Even if you already have the CD, think twice before putting it into production before the release has officially been announced: Are you really sure no fixes are required for your purposes? You need to consider this question both for the base system and for any ports you intend to use.
