[Pkg-osg-devel] 2.9.11 is out

[Alberto Luaces]

"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" writes:

> 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.

I understand. Thank you very much.

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Regards,

Alberto