MacPorts 1.7.0 without GSoC contributions

[George Armah]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2008, at 09:57, Caspar Florian Ebeling wrote:
>
>   
>>> Releasing something/anything would open up the experimentation again.
>>>       
>> That's my hope as well.
>>
>>     
>>>> That said, I can understand Ryan's worry very well. There hasn't  
>>>> been
>>>> a release in ages, and if the next release cycle is as long as the
>>>> current one, the upcoming release better be good, not buggy.
>>>>         
>>> Then something needs to be set up for testing ("Release Candidate"
>>> or more like alpha/beta perhaps) this - sooner rather than later ?
>>>       
>> Didn't mean to scare anyone with my "better be good".
>>     
>
> Oh, I agree, 1.7.0 better be good. :) And I'm all for a release  
> candidate or two; we do, after all, need to test the dmg  
> installer's .profile creation code, which is not getting exercised by  
> any of us running self-compiled trunk builds.
>
>   
>> The argument also
>> works the other way around, after all. If releases come more  
>> frequently,
>> the individual one need not be as perfect, because the next release  
>> gives
>> oppotunity to fix things. That's probably the rationale of "Release  
>> early,
>> release often." And if your changes are in trunk, then I'm quite  
>> confident
>> that they are well-tested already. I don't really see a need for a  
>> long Beta
>> since many people run trunk already, me included.
>>     
>
> That's why I want to release what we've been testing on trunk as  
> 1.7.0, rather than include the untested (by me at least) GSoC  
> contributions which are about to get merged into trunk (as I  
> understand it).
>   

If 1.7.0 has enough new additions that will be beneficial to users I 
don't think its release
should be held up by GSoC. The GSoC contributions will need some testing 
period and
could be added later on in say a 1.7.1 release.


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