Re: Familiar Release Strategy

Alexander Guy writes:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:22:56AM -0700, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > I think what you outline is fine.
> >
> > I do think frequent identifiable releases, however, is very important,
> > so we should avoid getting complacent about releases saying to ourselves
> > things like "well, they can run the unstable feed"....
>
> Yup. I actually don't want anyone who needs a working iPAQ to run unstable.
> I'd like to see most people jumping on the latest available release, and
> hooking up to the stable feed, and pulling updates that way.
>
> I don't want to ``pull a Debian'' with regards to getting releases out
> the door, but I also don't want to do inundate people with point releases.
> I think we'll find a balance as we move along.

Alexander,

There's still one issue to think about here.

We absolutely need an easy mechanism for those users who only want to
track releases, (rather than feeds), to easily upgrade. I don't
consider editing the /etc/ipkg.conf and changing 0.4 to 0.4.1 an easy
mechanism, (at least for purposes of this discussion).

With the current ipkg, tracking a feed is as simple as "ipkg update;
ipkg upgrade". We should ensure that tracking releases is just as
simple I think.

Or does that simply create another "feed" which is the latest point
"release"?

Just a little technical nit, but something we should think about.

-Carl
Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 11:09:37 EDT