[development] releases, recommended/supported changing automatically on release creation...

[Darrel O'Pry]

well filefield 2.2 (I can only specify major version on the releases
page) is recommended and supported, but it seems to be branch specific,
not release specific... 

I find a lot of the terminology and workflow around the new release
system very confusing...

ala...  

supported I don't think is a good word... It implies more than I want it
to... like my dev and rc releases aren't 'supported', but they're
maintained, and I want them displayed for the brave who want to test
them, but I don't want to commit myself to supporting them. It's a
question of managing expectations as the user community grows.

I'm also really confused about why we tie releases to branches and not
the release nodes.... I want to set releases to supported or
recommended... not branches of my code... branches are not synonymous to
releases...

my hungover thoughts this morning... 

.darrel.


  

On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 15:22 -0500, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> Daryl
> 
> Check here http://drupal.org/node/72560/edit/releases
> 
> See if you can tweak "supported" and "recommended" to do what you
> want.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         So today I'm humming a long and create a new RC for imagefield
>         2.3.. I
>         go back to the project page, and wow the RC is the recommended
>         and
>         supported version listed there... Totally not cool! How many
>         people are
>         going to that when they should be using the 2.2 release,
>         thanks to
>         update_status.module. I think it is really bad to
>         automatically change
>         these flags on maintainers. I think it should be left to the
>         maintainer
>         to decide when a release is recommended or supported.
>         
>         .darrel.
>         
> 
> 
> 
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