
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:22:37AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
On May 1, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:43:32AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 01:38:27PM -0500, Doug Goldstein thus spake:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote: Don't change the tarball name like that. That would just plain suck and be different than how 99% of projects out there do things.
Ok, but having the same download path is just as confusing, as it looks like an update to 0.9.11, when it is a different release.
Okay, I created a stable_updates subdirectory on the download area (Cole you own it !) and moved the 3 existing releases there. I think that: - avoid confusion with usual releases - makes clear that they are updates - remove the need to change the names or releases i.e. it resolves the confusion in the simplest way and allow to point to the exact location for each content.
Cole, would you mind updating the docs to point to that new sub-directory ?
thanks,
Daniel
Speaking as a distro package maintainer this kind of sucks since this is a special case but if 0.9.11.x confuses people then so be it.
I think we need to separate those maintainance releases as they are not made using the usual upstream process. It's in a sense arbitrary based on Fedora schedule and bug flow (though I would hope other distro chime in to suggest their prefered patches to backport in). Using a separate directory but keeping the name seems the simplest to me.
[...] Can we expect the same behavior for libxml as well then?
Nahh ... :-) there is far more workforce for libvirt than libxml2 I'm still struggling with the backlog needed to process before making a very needed release there, but that's completely different, the dynamic of the two projects have nothing in common :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/