Releases in theory and practice

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Austin" == Austin Kurahone <austin@example.com> writes:

    Austin> On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 07:54:39PM +0900, Joerg Winkelmann
    Austin> wrote:

    >> IMHO it is unnecssarily confusing that there is some unstable
    >> kernel out in the wild under the version number 2.4.*

    Austin> Something with "test" in the version number seems to imply
    Austin> that it's a pre-release and not a bona-fide 2.4 release
    Austin> "stable" kernel but..

When you get to n.even.0-test, the next step planned should be a
one-line patch that deletes the "-test" string from the top-level
Makefile or version.sh or whatever, and then release.[1]

When the number following the string "-test" hits double digits, you
can guess that somebody's been paying too much attention to the
Marketing Department.

IMNSHO -- I get to try it out the theories with live ammo:

      http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/21.2-Draft/

If you want to help out, you're more than welcome to wander on over to
http://www.xemacs.org/ and sign up for the XEmacs Beta Testers list.

P.S.  Please don't repost the URL above, it will shortly become
obsolete (1 week?) and the official URL will be on the XEmacs home
page.


Footnotes: 
[1]  I have heard that even that patch has been known to cause bugs.

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