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

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

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?

Paul