Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:20:16PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > The Subversion project has much closer ties to various Linux > > distributions now than it had around the time of the 1.6 pre-release > > phase. This is partly due to efforts by elego -- we actively help out > > with the official

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Stefan Sperling] > Because of the substantial changes done for 1.7, we will need > pre-release testing more than ever. So doing source-only 1.7 preview > releases would pose a major problem. We will have to actively push > for pre-release testing by providing binaries. I've always shied away fro

RE: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Bolstridge, Andrew
> -Original Message- > From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoise...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:08 PM > To: Hyrum K. Wright > Cc: Talden; Subversion Development > Subject: Re: 1.7 Release Plan > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:43, Hyrum K. Wright > wro

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:43:13PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Talden wrote: >> >> It looks like we might be fairly close to having on-disk formats >> >> stabilized, and hence rolling alphas.  Prerelea

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread John Beranek
On 29/07/10 10:59, Stefan Sperling wrote: [snip] > For the platforms mentioned above, I will try to push for 1.7 binaries > during all phases of pre-release testing (alpha, beta, rc). > To encourage wide testing, the plan is to make these available in > conveniently installable form: > - launchpa

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Stefan Küng
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:43, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > The project doesn't typically provide binaries, partly because there > are so many different combinations that it's hard to justify which > ones to build and which not too. > > However, providing binaries of these releases may be really usefu

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-29 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:43:13PM -0500, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Talden wrote: > >> It looks like we might be fairly close to having on-disk formats > >> stabilized, and hence rolling alphas.  Prereleases may be fairly > >> prolific, since I want to work the bugs

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-28 Thread Gavin Beau Baumanis
Hi Hyrum, et al, I am just shooting from the hip But I seem to remember a previous discussion that went along the lines of "pre-building" development environments. I "thought" - the plan was to use the deps collection and supply a (insert compiler brand / version here) configuration file. A

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-28 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Talden wrote: >> It looks like we might be fairly close to having on-disk formats >> stabilized, and hence rolling alphas.  Prereleases may be fairly >> prolific, since I want to work the bugs out of the transition to ASF >> distribution infrastructure, and get fix

Re: 1.7 Release Plan

2010-07-28 Thread Talden
> It looks like we might be fairly close to having on-disk formats > stabilized, and hence rolling alphas.  Prereleases may be fairly > prolific, since I want to work the bugs out of the transition to ASF > distribution infrastructure, and get fixes into the hands of users > rapidly. I'm very inte