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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:46:23 +0100

Hi Andrew

On Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 February 2009 10:39:51 Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > I thought each release has its own branch? I was not proposing to turn
> > the current development branch (i.e. the trunk) into a new 4-digit
> > release but rather just what's in the 3.14.10 release branch, which is
> > presumably the same as 3.14.10 with all known bug-fixes (and nothing
> > else) applied. I.e. such as are listed on the 'know problems' page,
> > plus maybe one or two more that aren't mentioned there.
> >
> > Are my assumptions wrong?
>
> Yup, we currently only have branches at the 2nd level number (3.13.x,
> 3.14,x. trunk), although if we needed to we could create a branch for a
> 3rd-level we could.  By linking patches from the Known Problems page
> we're making fixes available to people without promising that the result
> has been tested in the same way that an official release is.  

Hm, that sounds as if one should very carefully consider whether to apply 
such patches.

> The EPICS 
> developers at the APS are too busy to do anything more than that, but if
> someone else wants to help with the release process we could re-think
> that.

It depends. How much & what kind of work is requested? What, in fact, /is/ 
the test procedure you observe for testing an official release?

Cheers
Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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