In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 9 Aug 2002
13:52:41 -0700 (PDT), Xperex Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
xperextim> The problem is not that the release was made, the problem is that
xperextim> it was improperly labelled. By not saying that it was beta-quality,
xperextim> people were misled. There is a significant portion of the community
xperextim> that either doesn't have the skill or the inclination to deal with
xperextim> beta-quality software.
xperextim>
xperextim> The intent of not labelling the e, f, and g releases as beta was to
xperextim> have them widely distributed. However the opposite effect is
xperextim> happening as people will now be suspicious of the quality and will
xperextim> simply wait to see how things shake out.
Yes, I agree, the testing was clumsy. When I distributed 0.9.6f, I
was under the (incorrect) impression that the 0.9.6 snapshots had been
tested by some people, and that the possible bugs had been corrected.
The 0.9.6e release had the problems that Jeffrey mentioned.
Heh, this reminds me of the day back in 1993 (or was it 1994?) when
gcc was released 3 times the same day!
Anyhow, I'm writing a script that's supposed to be run from a crontab,
and that should do nightly builds of the latest snapshots (which it
fetches automagically using wgat or something similar). I'm going to
ask some users to run it and make sure the logs (if anything went
wrong) are mailed to us. That might help us solve the problem of not
having tests running on all platforms, or what do you say?
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