Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 13:03:56 -0300
Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> > Ohmygosh, you have to rpm install a bunch of -devel stuff? What a massive
> > hardship.
>
> It's not about the 5 minutes of compile time, it's about the signalling.
>
> Just *when* is git ready for testing? You don't know from the outside.
>
> I do lurk here a lot and still am unsure quite often.
>
> Even simply releasing an alpha *tarball* would be useful enough. What
> is needed is the signal to test, rather than a fully-built package.

This. The clients I referred to earlier don't even use the rpm packages,
they build from sources. They need to know when it is worthwhile to take a
new set of sources and test. Some sort of labeling about what the contents
are would enable them to do this.

I don't think a monthly snapshot would work as well as the requirement is
knowing that "grouping sets are in" not that "it is July now".

-dg

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