Re: New (now current development process)

Christopher Friesen
2005-11-07T17:12:06Z

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Eric Sandall <eric@sandall.us> writes:

>>A -final should never be changed from the last -rc. That defeats the
>>purpose of having -rc releases (rc == 'release candidate' ;)).
>
>
> This logic is flawed. RCs are for performing tests. If you don't want
> further tests (for example, tests on previous RC completed and you're
> quite sure new changes introduce no new bugs) you don't need further
> RCs.

How do you ever know that new change introduced no new bugs? Maybe
there was a latent race condition that is activated by timing
differences caused by the new code. Maybe it shifts the spacing of the
code just enough to get hit by a pre-existing trampler. Unless you test
it, you *can't* know.

The safe bet is to simply rename the final -rc with no further changes.

Chris