ANN of new versions of Mercurial

[Boggess, Rod]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boggess, Rod
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2013 9:00 AM
> To: 'Paul Boddie'
> Subject: RE: ANN of new versions of Mercurial
> 
> > Well, I wish you the very best in getting Earl to make time for
trying
> > out the release candidates. Since I'm more in the Norm category
myself
> > with regard to Mercurial (but not with regard to everything), mostly
> > at the more conservative end of that part of the continuum, I won't
> > try and change anyone's mind about this, but I do wonder whether the
> > tactics are the best ones to encourage earlier testing.
> >
> [Boggess, Rod] Not my place to put words in anyone's mouth here, and
> FWIW, I think you made several good points, but I think the point here
isn't
> so much to convince Earl to switch to a Tess, so much as it is to
prevent the
> 10000 Earls from reporting the same bug on day one. Thus, if you don't
make
> the announcement, the Earls of the world will (presumably) upgrade in
a
> more time-dispersed manner. This means that the developers won't be
> swamped with reports of the same error all at once. If it causes a few
Earls to
> rethink their position and consider a gender change, all the better,
but I don't
> think that's the main goal.
> 
> I think it's an interesting experiment. I, for one, would like to know
how it
> works after a couple of upgrade releases.
> 
> 
> > Paul
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