<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, snapshots vs releases aren't just a manner of tag. When a dev<br>thinks it's software is ready to do a release (even a
<br>pre-alpha-unstable-release), he has good reasons. Daily snapshots are</blockquote><div><br>Sometimes they think they could call their release x.y-alpha1 but they don't because<br>they dont have time and it would be as arbitrary as a daily snapshot. I am talking
<br>about code which is nearing beta as xfce upstream is not any random point in time (xfmedia currently)<br></div><div> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Yeah but latest "releasable" code. I think if we package daily snapshots<br>we can encounter bugs that would not be on a (whatever)-release.</blockquote><div><br> I think if it's good enough for us to use it's good enough for eager users.
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">><br>> well daily snapshots don't imply daily uploading of them :)<br><br>
so how users could test ? what would be the benefits ?</blockquote><div><br>well uploads from time to time of a recent daily snapshot which the uploader tested<br></div>this assumes uploader watches what goes on upstream (at least changelogs if not code)
<br><br>Right now I am pretty sure most of xfce 4.3 could be used by users of an unstable distro.<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> features are concerned even though stable enough otherwise.<br><br>But you can have a mass breakage from one day to another.</blockquote><div><br>Unlikely to be that grave, but even so people using dapper (dunno about sid)
<br>assume this risk. And the breakage in xfce (except maybe thunar) could not really<br>cause data loss or similar only crashes and so.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't think testing each and every daily snapshot to see if it's<br>usable, then upload from time to time, is a good idea. That what<br>(whatever)-releases are for. And if Xfce devs don't do releases, they<br>may have good reasons. (lots of stuff moving etc..).
</blockquote><div><br>Lack of time... <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Though, asking them for releases («being curious, poking, nudging»)
<br>can't hurd.<br></blockquote></div><br>I don't want to be too pushy.<br><br>Jani <br>