"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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... Ok, thanks for the suggestion. The preview RPMs for i386 and x86_64 and an SRPM are available at: /pub/software/scm/git/testing/ The tarball for 1.5.0-rc2 is found at: /pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.0.rc2.tar.gz along with tarballs of preformatted htmldocs and manpages. - 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