[development] confused: beta-1 release != head?

[Robin Monks]

+1 for the sake of +1...

What's wrong with nightly tarballs?

Robin

On 12/14/05, James Walker <walkah at walkah.net> wrote:
>
> On 12/14/05 7:52 AM, Tim Altman wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:30:22 +0100, Dries Buytaert
> > <dries.buytaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 14 Dec 2005, at 11:41, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> >>> I am confused, I assumed beta 1 was just following head, in other
> >>> words beta1
> >>> == head.
> >>
> >> beta 1 is a snapshot of HEAD, taken 1-2 weeks ago.  It is not updated
> >> automatically, although I could set it up such that the beta gets
> >> repackaged on a daily basis.  At the moment, beta 1 lacks a number of
> >> important fixes.
> >
> > I'd prefer that TAR files always remain static snapshots and not update
> > automatically.  When we talk about 4.7 beta 1, we know what state the
> > code is in.  If it's a moving target, it's much harder to tell if
> > something is a new problem or existed when the release was first
> created.
>
> +1
>
> --
> James Walker :: http://walkah.net/ :: xmpp:walkah at walkah.net
>



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