Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 19:03 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > apt build-dep lyx > > Pavel For those of you using Fedora (and related distributions) the equivalent is surprisingly: $ dnf build-dep lyx ... Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:19 ago on Sat 10 Dec 2022 08:19:31 PM WET. Package make-1:4.3

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:16:16AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > apt build-dep lyx > Reading package lists... Done > E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list > > > I wasn't sure if that meant this fell out of maintenance or was a > legitimate error. If legitimate, do we know how t

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 11:04 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:40:37AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > If you (or someone) can help me provision the build environment to the > > point where I can build/package, I'd then be able to show potential > benefit > > apt build-dep lyx >

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 10:40:37AM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > If you (or someone) can help me provision the build environment to the > point where I can build/package, I'd then be able to show potential benefit apt build-dep lyx Pavel -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://li

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread José Matos
On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 10:40 -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > Pavel, > > Thanks for these thoughts.  I tried to follow the ReleaseProcedure as > a test with an Ubuntu docker image (a minimal Ubuntu > "installation").  Almost everything needs to be installed, which begs > the question: what are the prer

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-12-10 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 2:20 AM Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 02:42:52PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > > > wrote: > > > > > Le 26/11/2022 ?? 21:17, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > > > 5. We should produce snapshot binaries (i.e

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-28 Thread Yu Jin
Am Mo., 28. Nov. 2022 um 10:19 Uhr schrieb Pavel Sanda : > > Where it would be perhaps more useful is Windows/Mac platforms, > but esp. in Win world we are nowhere close to an automatic builds > (am I correct Eugene?) > I think it might be possible, running the compiler from the command line in w

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-28 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 02:42:52PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > wrote: > > > Le 26/11/2022 ?? 21:17, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > > 5. We should produce snapshot binaries (i.e., testing releases that > > > aren't necessarily at a stage w

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-27 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/26/22 16:33, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 03:55:38PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/26/22 15:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote: 5. We should produce snapshot binaries (i.e., testing releases that aren't necessarily at a stage with criteria) more frequently. I th

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-26 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 2:16 PM Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 26/11/2022 à 21:17, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > 5. We should produce snapshot binaries (i.e., testing releases that > > aren't necessarily at a stage with criteria) more frequently. This is > > especially helpful for platf

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 03:55:38PM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 11/26/22 15:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > The last few years have been atypical, but even before then I think most > > of us were in favor of more frequent major releases. > > Yes, I think that would be a very good idea,

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-26 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 26/11/2022 à 21:17, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : 5. We should produce snapshot binaries (i.e., testing releases that aren't necessarily at a stage with criteria) more frequently. This is especially helpful for platform-specific bugs so we can ask the reporter if they can reproduce wit

Re: Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-26 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/26/22 15:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote: The last few years have been atypical, but even before then I think most of us were in favor of more frequent major releases. Yes, I think that would be a very good idea, though I do not know how much time I'll have to devote to LyX. It seems likely I'

Baby steps towards more frequent major releases

2022-11-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
The last few years have been atypical, but even before then I think most of us were in favor of more frequent major releases. I'm not going to spend much time on this type of long-run goal, but I'm starting to think about how to at least crawl towards it. Here are a few thoughts in no particular or