On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:21:31AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: > On 23/12/2010, at 12:12 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > But I don't see what a release candidate brings that is not available > > from ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz > > Yeah, I can definitely see your point with that. > > I think the "missing piece" here is some way of letting people know that > "ok, now you need to start testing the XYZ tarball, as we're preparing for > a release." yes, that's a messaging problem, not a technical problem. I need to be more vocal about entering the freeze (a single mail won't make it) and should probably point to the snapshots. > On a related note, we should probably set up a libvirt-announce@xxxxxxxxxx > mailing list, used for release/important announcements and similar. Not > everyone that wants to know of the releases wants to receive user and/or > developer mailing list traffic. We had that debate a couple of years ago, at the time the size of the followers were small enough it wasn't considered useful (-users too) but at this point, yes, that's something to do, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list