Re: My views on release management

[John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>]

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I thought of it because, if I recall correctly, with the slink freeze
> we had a new ncurses, a new slang, the X reorganization, and perl
> 5.005 all in the two weeks before the freeze.  We can forget about a
> short freeze if something like that happens again.  However, it may
> have been a fluke.  I don't remember it happening to that extent
> before the hamm freeze, and we'll probably be extra careful next time.

	I think the perl maintainer did not realize that there was
a directory reorganization in 5.005, so that every perl module had to 
be fixed , not just those with C code. And it also forced us to think of
a way to handle the reorganization, which is more difficult than 
simply recompiling.  

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John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
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