Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> writes: > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > > increase the number of testers. > > ... > > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a > > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall. > > One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends > just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts > to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not > like to get "beta" installed for them. Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory... -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html