ANN of new versions of Mercurial

[Adrian Klaver]

On 12/26/2012 01:05 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 10:24 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 12/21/2012 10:19 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 07:00 +0000, Gaunet Sylvain (ASTEK) wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> It seems that you doesn't announce the new versions of Mercurial on the mailing list now ?
>>
>>>
>>> http://markmail.org/message/r3uyv3dxy6vtj6ob
>>>
>>
>> I can sort of see your point, but in general would have to disagree for
>> the following reasons.
>>
>> 1) Bugs are part of writing software. When they get squashed is not
>> important, that they do is.

>
> And that's what the goal of announcing the release candidates instead of
> the releases is: encourage Earl to be earlier so that his extra
> enthusiasm actually helps the project.
>

The fault I see in this is the assumption you can increase the pool of 
early adopters. I yet to see that happen. There is a fairly fixed 
proportion of software users that will take the plunge, the rest wait. 
The early adopters tickle the low hanging bugs. It is not until the 
final release is made and the pool of users expands do the tough bugs 
get flushed out. Do not understand why a production release should be 
hidden. It would seem to be something to be proud of.  In any case it is 
not my project, so I will go along with the program.


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver at gmail.com