The one area where some planning might be nice is with the Ubuntu LTS releases. In order to keep up the WAF, I try to keep all of my machines on LTS versions, so that I can avoid the downtime of upgrades. So right now, I have been holding with myth 0.23 because 0.24 came out right after the Lucid LTS release. I know that I can use an alternative repository, but I am trying to keep things are vanilla (and therefore stable) as possible. <br>
<br>Anyway, not a critique, just a suggestion.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">Robert McNamara wrote:<br>
<br>
>Our intent to release<br>
>frequently hasn't been dropped. We've recently started some tasks<br>
>which are going to take a number of releases and it makes picking a<br>
>good spot to release a bit harder. I know we still want to make<br>
>regular releases but it might be reasonable to expect that .25 and .26<br>
>might be at slightly longer increments.<br>
<br>
</div>Speaking as a user - technical user, but not a software developer so<br>
I don't really know the technicalities involved ...<br>
<br>
Personally, given the effort involved (yes I do recognise the<br>
complexity of the system and the work that goes into it) I don't<br>
particularly mind longer release cycles if that makes it easier to<br>
deal with major stuff like you mentioned. On the other hand, in<br>
between it would be good to get minor releases (ie a stable release<br>
with bug fixes but no major enhancements). Eg, if 0.26 is going to be<br>
a while, the 0.25.1 as a release containing 0.25 plus all the bug<br>
fixed to date that can be packaged would be good from a user's POV.<br>
<br>
Given the time it took me to get Myth going in the first place (I'm<br>
still on 0.21 BTW), I'm a) keen to stick to packaged releases*, and<br>
b) averse to major upgrades that might break things - even if being<br>
single means I have no WAF to consider ! I'm running Debian on my<br>
back end, and MythBuntu on the frontend. I have now got some new<br>
hardware for the backend, so the plan is to do a new install onto<br>
that while leaving the current system running.<br>
<br>
* I run a fair number of systems at work, and whilst I could use<br>
non-packaged software on those, I have to consider the support issues<br>
that introduces. I tend to do the same at home, partly out of habit I<br>
suppose !<br>
<br>
PS - I'm exceedingly grateful to all the devs who've put effort into this.<br>
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