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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:27:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk5zfyhoh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701212001.l0LK1ofV022758@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> (Horst H. von Brand's message of "Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:01:50 -0300")

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
>> > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly
>> > increase the number of testers.
>> > ...
>> > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should
>> > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a
>> > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall.
>> 
>> One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends
>> just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts
>> to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not
>> like to get "beta" installed for them.
>
> Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory...

Ok, thanks for the suggestion.

The preview RPMs for i386 and x86_64 and an SRPM are available at:

	/pub/software/scm/git/testing/

The tarball for 1.5.0-rc2 is found at:

	/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.0.rc2.tar.gz

along with tarballs of preformatted htmldocs and manpages.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22  1:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21  8:56 Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 11:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 13:42   ` Bill Lear
2007-01-21 13:52     ` Bill Lear
2007-01-21 21:26       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 21:33         ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 22:01           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 22:24             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 13:43   ` Willy Tarreau
2007-01-21 15:06     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-21 18:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-21 19:49       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-22 17:23         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-01-21 20:01       ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-22  1:27         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2007-01-21 19:46   ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-01-21 21:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-01-21 22:45     ` Jakub Narebski
2007-01-22 18:08   ` Carl Worth
2007-01-22 19:28     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-01-23  1:01       ` Carl Worth
2007-01-22 18:22   ` Jakub Narebski

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