Re: [MiNT] keyboard.tbl / wiki addition / sparemint.org down?

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 00:01 +1000, Paul Wratt wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:42 +0200, Miro Kropacek wrote:
> >> > And the daily builds have been running how long ?
> >> >
> >> > Just goes to show how little people use them.
> >> That was exactly my point Alan! Lazy people like me aren't comfortable
> >> with testing something such "boring" as daily builds. But when we have
> >> some RC, something like "people, this is really going to be
> >> released!!!", I wake up and start testing. This is the reason why I
> >> asked for direct link for an archive, not some generic daily builds
> >> link.
> >
> > Exactly my point. It's still a daily build whether someone blesses it
> > with "RC" status or not.
> >
> > I might as well always call the daily builds as RC builds as that's what
> > they ultimately are. We're always tracking the trunk for a release
> > whether that be 1.17.0 or 1.18.0 or something else. No testing of these,
> > means no bug reports until a flurry of RC testing. That's bad for
> > developers who get an influx of bugs when we're just about to release.
> > I'd rather spread bug reports out and ensure people do test daily builds
> > when they can instead of leaving it to "RC" status.
> >
> > And therefore I now announce there are no longer any daily builds, I
> > bless the "RC builds", but they're in the same location. :-)
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> :)
> 
> see my other post..
> 
> BTW are the builds of mintlib also current?

Yes.

Alan.