On 2013-12-26 13:44, Markus Hitter wrote: > >>> volunteer driven software development no longer does such things. >> >> Personally I think that is a bad idea and is detrimental to the health >> of the Free Software community. > > The equitation is simple: resources are limited, so a developer can > either work on maintaining older releases or she can advance the > project. Accordingly, doing release maintenance slows down development. doing "releases" does not necessary mean doing "boring maintenance or older releases". you could adapt a model that simply tags snapshots of the source code as "releases" whenever the developers think that the current code-base is *stable*. this is different from having a automated nightly snapshot of the current (and hopefully involves some minimal - evtl. automated - testing) gfmdsar IOhannes
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