[mythtv-users] 0.18's available

Nate Thompson nightstrm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 18:25:26 UTC 2005


That is why there are various package categories at ATRrpms... the
package could be submitted as bleeding/testing if the packager feels
it may not be ready for a general (stable) release.

On 4/15/05, Big Wave Dave <bigwavedave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/15/05, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:55:17PM -0400, Nate Thompson wrote:
> > > According to atrpms.net, it is still .17. I'm sure it'll be updated soon.
> > >
> >
> > While Jarrod has volunteered bravely to be a release engineer after this,
> > I think a wise policy would be to _not_ make the rpms available soon.
> > (though the "bleeding from CVS" rpm should be made available right away.)
> >
> > Mythtv releases have a flurry of last-minute check-ins, many of which
> > are fixes but not, as in many other projects, all of them.  The releases are
> > more a checkpoint and a goal -- get in your patches now!
> >
> > It might very well be a prudent policy to have as many people run the
> > cvs or rpm-from-cvs versions at this point, and then build the stable
> > rpm a week later after all those first-line folks have tried it.
> >
> 
> I personally planned to watch for a few days to see if any big bugs
> were discovered.  It isn't meant as a slam to any of the developers...
> Just seems to happen alot with software releases in general.
> 
> I think the CVS RPMs being released right-away, and then the actual
> release RPMs a day or two later might not be a bad idea.  In some ways
> it would be like issuing "release candidates".
> 
> Dave
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