[mythtv-users] .25 release schedule

[Matthew Asplund]

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.

Anyway, not a critique, just a suggestion.



On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> Robert McNamara wrote:
>
> >Our intent to release
> >frequently hasn't been dropped.  We've recently started some tasks
> >which are going to take a number of releases and it makes picking a
> >good spot to release a bit harder.  I know we still want to make
> >regular releases but it might be reasonable to expect that .25 and .26
> >might be at slightly longer increments.
>
> Speaking as a user - technical user, but not a software developer so
> I don't really know the technicalities involved ...
>
> Personally, given the effort involved (yes I do recognise the
> complexity of the system and the work that goes into it) I don't
> particularly mind longer release cycles if that makes it easier to
> deal with major stuff like you mentioned. On the other hand, in
> between it would be good to get minor releases (ie a stable release
> with bug fixes but no major enhancements). Eg, if 0.26 is going to be
> a while, the 0.25.1 as a release containing 0.25 plus all the bug
> fixed to date that can be packaged would be good from a user's POV.
>
> Given the time it took me to get Myth going in the first place (I'm
> still on 0.21 BTW), I'm a) keen to stick to packaged releases*, and
> b) averse to major upgrades that might break things - even if being
> single means I have no WAF to consider ! I'm running Debian on my
> back end, and MythBuntu on the frontend. I have now got some new
> hardware for the backend, so the plan is to do a new install onto
> that while leaving the current system running.
>
> * I run a fair number of systems at work, and whilst I could use
> non-packaged software on those, I have to consider the support issues
> that introduces. I tend to do the same at home, partly out of habit I
> suppose !
>
> PS - I'm exceedingly grateful to all the devs who've put effort into this.
>
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