[#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: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-06-21 09:02:44 UTC
List: ruby-core #11525
Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 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.

We already did this. 1.8.6 was released after experiencing some preview
releases. The problem Sylvain talks about was not found during that process.

Release candidate is a good validation.  But it doesn't guarantee that
it expresses all problems.

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