Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What are the plans for future developer releases?

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:41:30 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Gerald Combs wrote:

> Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Hi List, hi Gerald!
> >
> > As we are currently taking progress in the 1.0 stable release trunk,
> > this will hopefully lead to a 1.0.0 release with raising to 1.0.1 and
> > alike even numbers as bug fixes are merged from the developer trunk.
> >
> > However, as more and more developer work will get "buried" in the
> > subversion trunk, do we want to have anything like developer releases in
> > the (near) future? I personally don't like the idea to spread several
> > different SVN versions to my colleagues.
> >
> > I would think these developer releases should get odd version numbers
> > 1.1.0, 1.1.1, and so on.
> >
> > Maybe we could get the first developer release 1.1.0, after the 0.99.0
> > is out?
>
> Sounds good.  Would anyone get bent out of shape if the developer
> releases weren't as formal as the stable releases?  Making sure the
> release notes, change logs, advisories, etc. are up to date takes a
> significant amount of time.

No worries here. I think the quality of the stable releases needs to be
excellent, then the development releases are just that. For development
purposes, that is. Nothing official.

Thanx,
Jaap