[Pkg-osg-devel] 2.9.11 is out

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi,

On Tuesday 01 February 2011 14:01:22 Alberto Luaces wrote:
> "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:
> > On Saturday 29 January 2011 11:49:08 Alberto Luaces wrote:
> >> I have pushed the changes into a new branch, dev/2.9.11. I think we
> >> are ready to upload to experimental.
> > 
> > Apparently, the freeze is (finally, hopefully) almost over.  Maybe we
> > can wait a few weeks and upload it directly to unstable, at least that
> > would be my first choice.  (Packages in experimental are often left
> > over broken and so on, so I --and I suspect other people-- tend to
> > ignore experimental).
> 
> Yes, I heard that it's expected to happen around February the 6th. I'm
> however in favour of uploading to experimental as soon as possible, in
> order not to release a too buggy version to unstable, given two facts:
> 
> * I have tested the build and I'm currently using the packages for my
>   daily work, but I can't warrantee the build for any other system than
>   the one I have, amd64. Robert gives, in my opinion, too few time to
>   tag every new release, maybe because they are developer
>   releases. Regressions can creep in very easily.
> 
> * 2.8.3 is somewhat far from current SVN, there are more chances for
>   bugs to show.
> 
> Once we have 2.9.11 working well, we can start releasing directly to
> unstable, but I think experimental can accelerate our development
> greatly. Users really interested in current versions can get from there
> at their own risk, and so far nobody issued a wish report for a new
> version... we must not forget that last released version is still 2.8.3.

OK, I'll try to upload it within the next few days.  But I can't promise a 
fixed date.

Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>