[#11439] comments needed for Random class — "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>

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15 messages 2007/06/12

[#11450] Re: new method dispatch rule (matz' proposal) — David Flanagan <david@...>

This is a late response to the very long thread that started back in

17 messages 2007/06/13

[#11482] Ruby Changes Its Mind About Non-Word Characters — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

Does this look like a bug to anyone else?

10 messages 2007/06/16

[#11505] Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@...4x.org>

1.8.6 thread support was broken in bad ways. It stayed for three months

20 messages 2007/06/20
[#11512] Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle — Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...> 2007/06/20

Hi, I'm the 1.8.6 branch manager.

[#11543] Re: Apple reportedly to ship with ruby 1.8.6-p36 unless informed what to patch — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

On Jun 27, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Bill Kelly wrote:

10 messages 2007/06/27

Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle

From: "Michal Suchanek" <hramrach@...>
Date: 2007-06-20 16:47:09 UTC
List: ruby-core #11519
On 20/06/07, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I think that shortening the release interval is not the thing that is needed.

I would suggest to publish a release candidate tarball, wait for a
month or so, and see how many problems are found.
If there are only minor glitches just fix them and make a release. If
there are many or serious problems, put in the fixes, and publish
another candidate.

Thanks

Michal

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