----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Naveen Kumar Kaushik" <naveenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Guy Harris"
<guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once onwindowbefore
every release
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Naveen Kumar Kaushik"
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once
onwindowbefore
> every release
>
>
> > From: "Ronnie Sahlberg"
> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Please Compile the ethereal once on
> windowbefore
> > every release
> >
> >
> > > Anyone can watch the devel list and see when Gerald posts
> > > "I plan to do a new release on ABCday next week. Is that ok with
> > > everyone or does anyone
> > > want me to hold the release for a few days more?"
> >
> > ***********
> > Please Let me know if there is a code freeze date for a particular
release
> .
> > If yes than if the list knows this people can download freezed code and
> > report problems .
> >
> > ***********
>
> There is no specific date when releases are made. There is no release
> schedule.
>
> I dont know how or why or when releases are made, i belive they are
> spontaneous.
> Based on observation I would say that releases are triggered by either
> Gerald spontaneously mailing the
> mailing list saying something like "Its been a while since the last
release
> now. I think I am going to do a new one on Sunday.
> Everyone, get all your pending changes in or tell me and I will hold it
> off".
> An alternative way a release might be triggered (also based on
observation)
> is that someone, anyone, mails any of the lists
> stating "Hey list, can someone do a new release soon so I can start using
> new features x,y,z?" This then often triggers Gerald
> to respond "Ok, you are right. Ill try to do a new release on Wednesday
next
> week."
>
> Thus there is no date when releases are planned. Since releases are never
> planned they happen spontaneously.
>
> Observation suggests that a new release is done approximately once every
4-6
> weeks or so.
> Slightly less frequently during the southern winter.
>
>
> When Gerald decides it is time for a new release in a couple of days
time/a
> weeks time he sends a post to the developer mailing
> list stating "I will try to do a new release in the beginning of next
> week".
> This tells the others of us that a new release is due sometime around
Monday
> next week.
> There is no "code freeze" period never has been and never will be one.
>
>
> I belive, but am not sure since I am not Gerald, that when it is time for
a
> new release,
> Gerald just does a complete CVS checkout of whatever is the current code
and
> calls whatever is checked out the new release.
> That is what i would do.
>
>
> This is background and may not be relevant.
>
>
> Suggestion:
> Please keep track of when Gerald posts his next mail to the developer list
> stating that "in x days there might be a new release"
> then do a cvs checkout of ethereal and compile and test.
> Then every day until the new release is out, just do a cvs update and test
> that compiling ethereal works.
> If you find that there are problems compiling ethereal just a day before
> Gerald said he was gonna do a cvs checkout and release that as x.y.z
> then you just have to mail the developer list saying : "Hey guys, can you
> hold off the release a day or so until I have fixed the problem with
> compiling ethereal on platform W"
The ideal situation would have been getting a tar of freezed code but since
"There is no "code freeze" period never has been and never will be one"
this is ruled out.
This make sense from the next release ie 0.9.16 or 1.0 I will keep compiling
once I know release is near.
I wish I have enough time during that period and may be more people come
forward so that issues related to compilation on plateform where
compilation are not frequent (ie developer community does not frequently
compile on these plateform) can be addressed before the release.
As Guy pointed out in his many messages that developer does not follow
coding standard related to compilation on different plateform (ie those
written in Readme.developer), this step of "compiling code on many
plateforms before release" may address this issue
Naveen
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