Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:12:11 -0600

Ralph Lange wrote:

I'm perfectly fine with a -pre2 release, as I've not been available last

week and didn't manage to find time this week yet. I'm on late shift

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, though, so I hope to be able to run the

complete set of tests during the weekend. I'll do a CVS update on Friday

to get the stuff here before the APS power switching.

Great - thanks.

Maybe you can consider giving the -pre2 a 1-week proposed lifetime and

get -RC1 ready next Friday?!

That was my intention - once we think we've committed fixes to

everything we discover in the week following the -pre<n> release, the

next release will be -RC1, followed hopefully a week later (assuming

there are no changes needed) by the final R3.14.9 release. The longer

period for -pre1 was only because the US Thanksgiving holiday fell in

the middle of that week.

I admit the -pre vs -RC decision is a bit of a judgement call, but I

think this plan is a reasonable compromise between releasing too early

and having the release hanging on for ages. Note that under this model,

it's entirely possible for an -RC release to be followed by another -pre

release if something nasty turns up that can't be fixed in time. I'm

currently updating ReleaseChecklist.html to describe the plan.

- Andrew
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