On 8 June 2015 at 17:03, Claudio Freire <klaussfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not about the 5 minutes of compile time, it's about the signalling. > > Just *when* is git ready for testing? You don't know from the outside. > > I do lurk here a lot and still am unsure quite often. > > Even simply releasing an alpha *tarball* would be useful enough. What > is needed is the signal to test, rather than a fully-built package. > I can see that, and can absolutely get behind the idea of a nightly being flagged as an alpha, since it should involve next to no developer time. I may be overestimating the amount of time that goes towards producing a release; the fact that the full-on alpha releases were stopped did imply to me that it's not insignificant. Geoff
