[csw-maintainers] Release Candidate Discussion

Dagobert Michelsen dam at opencsw.org
Fri Mar 13 16:08:28 CET 2009


Hi Mike,

Am 13.03.2009 um 16:04 schrieb Mike Watters:
> I searched through the maintainers list archives and did not find  
> anything on this.
> If I missed please point me that direction.
>
> What is the policy on release candidates vs. stable?

There are only stable versions released to current. There are few
exceptions, like zsh, where the developer version can be considered
stable enough and was included that way long time ago.

> Personally, I like having 2 versions in "testing" that way we can  
> help debug
> the upstream packages as needed.  but I don't think anything with  
> release candidate
> status should make it to unstable or stable.

Yes. Feel free to put everything in testing, though.


Bets regards

   -- Dago



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