Steve Grubb wrote: > OK, here is what upstream said: Thanks for the persistence and followup. :) >>> 1) Is this (kdepim-enterprise-svn20070926.tar.bz2) an officially >>> supported release? >> >>No, it says "svn" which means it was a development snapshot. >>We do have some snapshots which we consider good for testing >>which which some people use in production (as testing) and packagers >>might want to pick up for the "test" builds, check >>http://apt.intevation.de/dists/etch/unstable/source/ That's news to me. When I asked, I was told there was no "release" and to pull from subversion. Glad to hear otherwise. > Question: are we using this as our source? Should we sync up with their > recommendations? Makes sense. >>> 2) How much testing goes into a tarball like this before a release? >> >>We did not release this tarball, it seems to have been a snapshot >>quality control depends on the one who created it. >> >>The ones that you can find in the mentioned "unstable" apt directory above >>have seen internal testing. This consists of testing towards the new >>feature and a basic test that covers some core functionality. Make sense +2. I'm curious exactly "internal testing" exactly means, but either way, it's better than a random snapshot with no "internal testing". >>> 3) Did you make any kind of announcement that this was ready to be used >>> by end users? >> >>No. Sorry if you've already heard this before, but it's worth repeating: I was told at akademy of kdepim-enterprise's existence, by several of it's developers, and urged to strongly consider using this (in fedora). > Observation: Since they are not announcing anything about a feature being > complete, a snapshot on a random day could catch something half patched. fwiw, I watch the commits, make an effort to get "good" snapshots, but point taken. >>> 4) Is this release stable enough for a business to run on? >> >>I cannot say, it depends who created the snapshot >>and what promisses were made for it. Probably not. > > So, if you use Fedora's kmail, the upstream *developers* say it not stable > enough to use for production. By taking snaps on random days, we are on > our own. I rest my case.... I think we can all agree that random snapshots are bad, and it's nice to be made aware of uptream's semi-official, internally tested, tarball snapshots. Would switching to their snapshots instead of our own random ones, satisfy most/all of your concerns? -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
