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From: "Paul Rolland" <rol@as2917.net>
To: "'Simon Oosthoek'" <simon@cal003100.student.utwente.nl>,
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Subject: Re: 2.4.x release process comments
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:11:46 +0100
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Hello,

> I'm not saying it should, but it would be good from a PR 
> perspective and as
> an element in the reliability feeling vector ;-)
Not sure about it... People like it when a product looks stable,
and having a -blah or -pre and so on once a week doesn't make
me feel I have some stable product...
  
> The number of -pre releases shouldn't be limited for its own sake, but
> rather in the process of stabilising the kernel for release. 
> So I mean after
> a couple of -pre releases start focussing on debugging and 
> then finish with
> a few -rc's before the next cycle starts. That way the diffs 
> between full
> versions are smaller and upgrading gets easier.
So, the question is to choose between :
 - less releases with more changes
or
 - more relaseases with less changes

Is that correct ?

Paul

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