Re: misleading description on Wireshark Download page

[Balint Reczey <balint.reczey () ericsson com>]

On 11/05/2011 03:44 AM, Chris Maynard wrote:
> Balint Reczey<balint.reczey@...>  writes:
>
> > > Why not release a new dev release (based on trunk) to each new release
> > > of 1.6.x/1.4.x ?
> > Why should we? The svn repository is public.
>
> Perhaps so more people could try the development releases without requiring them
> to build it themselves?
We already provide automated development builds at
ftp://ftp.wireshark.org/automated/ .
I think those are enough. Distributions are also free to package svn snapshots.

> But that said, I'm not sure a 1-1 development-to-stable release schedule is
> necessarily the right way to go either since there may be features in progress
> on the development branch that aren't ready for prime-time when a new stable
> release is made.
If the repository were not open, I would release a few development snapshots 
shortly before branching off a new stable branch.
In our case instead of releasing development snapshots I would announce the 
approaching opening of the new stable branch. Interested parties could then look 
into the current state and submit patches before the new branch opens.

Cheers,
Balint

> - Chris

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