Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:37:28 -0600

Hi Ben,

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:46:23 Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> >
> > 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.

I would agree that a cure is not always better than the illness, depending how 
good your doctor is...

> > 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?

The full release procedure that I try to follow can be found in the 
base/documentation directory, or for R3.14.10 it's here:

http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/10-docs/ReleaseChecklist.html

- Andrew
-- 
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