From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T18:11:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> Wouldn't it be possible to have "hotfixes" (i.e.: quick patchlevel 
> releases) when this kind of bugs happen ? 
>   

Well, use Subversion.

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/tags
http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/tags/

This time we released particular 1.8.6-p36, but p1 to p35 also exists
there.  They were not announced because announcing every patches is way
too annoying.  Imagine more than a dozen of release announcement made in
a day or two... I bet you just ignore everything.

Anyway 3 months of release interval is not that long I feel.  Remember
there were only one chance in a year (i.e. 25th Dec.) to release a ruby
in ancient days.  Releasing too frequently is annoying as I wrote. 3
months is at once moderately long, moderately short.