[csw-maintainers] Release Candidate Discussion

[rupert THURNER]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 16:04, Mike Watters <mwatters at opencsw.org> wrote:
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> I searched through the maintainers list archives and did not find anything on this.
> If I missed please point me that direction.
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> What is the policy on release candidates vs. stable?
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> 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.

fully agree. try to compile seems to help a lot to get a version out
much earlier as soon as the -rc status is gone.

rupert.