release schedules (was Re: hosting an internal macports server with binaries)

[James Berry]

On May 7, 2007, at 8:15 PM, paul beard wrote:

>
> On May 7, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Paul Guyot wrote:
>
>> However, this functionality is broken in 1.4.3. This bug was fixed  
>> three weeks ago, but the people in charge here think we should not  
>> make too often releases, so you'll have to use trunk or wait for  
>> the fix.
>
> I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere but if this was a  
> democracy, I would vote for more frequent/regular releases,  
> especially if as alluded above, there is some breakage that can be  
> fixed. I know we just went through a messy release of 1.4.[0123]  
> but if the swelling has gone down from that one, when do you think  
> the next release will be?

I'm all for frequent releases, and have just been waiting for a bit  
of time in my schedule, and concurrence from others, to make a  
release. I don't think Paul is being quite fair.

James
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