Release

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:15:36 -0700
Hal Murray <halmurray at sonic.net> wrote:

> Gary said:
> >> We've been talking about a release for a long time.  I've been
> >> assuming people have been testing.   
> > I do not assume that.  Likely they will test after release.   
> 
> By "people", I was thinking of those who read @devel.

Ditto.

> I assume your "they" is for the much larger collection who will use
> our code as distributed by their distro.

Nope.  I assume they, the end users of this code by way
of their distro are 100% oblivious.

> Would it help if we added a release candidate to our release
> procedure? How much?

I have not found it useful.  YMMV.

>  Would it be better use of our manpower ot
> release early and often?

I just assume there will be a snap minro release soon after a major
release.  Many do.  How many test kernel 6.4?  Way more test 6.14.1

Prolly should annouce in users@

RGDS
GARY
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