Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk versions/patches
From: William Uther (will+@cs.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 10 1997 - 10:13:07 EDT
>> From: patrick finerty <zinc@genetics.utah.edu>
>> To: epcordes@umich.edu
>
>> 1.4b2 has been out (it seems like) forever and in the meanwhile
>> asun@zoology.washington.edu has been releasing patch after patch for
>> it. when is 1.4b2 at least going to move to b3 and incorporate some of
>> these items in the official distribution?
>
>The move to b3 will follow a limited release of netatalk for solaris.
>The limited release for solaris is coming shortly. We like to be
>reasonable bug free, and fairly tested before we release, even an
>alpha. As far as patches go, we'd rather the official/main netatalk
>distribution didn't become a member of the patch-a-week club.
>
>:wes
http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html has an interesting study
of 'the patch-a-week club'. They favour a two separate release model. One
release is the 'bleeding edge' release which might be released more than
once a day during high intensity periods. The other release is the 'known
stable' release that lags behind the earlier release with only known stable
stuff in it.
It seems that we almost have that model for netatalk already. Adrian does
the bleeding edge release (which I can't seem to get to compile easily).
And 'the maintainers' release the 'known stable' release. The only
difference is that things don't seem to be migrating from Adrian's release
to the 'official' release (for a variety of reasons - not the fault of any
one party).
\x/ill :-}
William Uther "When I die I want to go quietly,
will@cs.cmu.edu in my sleep like my Grandfather,
Dept. of Computer Science, not screaming like the passengers in his car"
Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~will/
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