Re: [Gretl-devel] gretl 1.9.6?

On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: > I think that we getting overdue for a 1.9.6 release (the change log > is bulging). > > If people agree, I'll send out a note to the translators and also a > note to the users list (as suggested by Ignacio Diaz-Emparanza at > this year's gretl conference) announcing a "bug-fix week" before > release. > > But does anyone have a reason to prefer holding back on a release? > If so, please say. I'm totally for a new release. Only, I'd have a freeze period longer than a week. Ideally, once the freeze is announced, people should: 1) grab the CVS version, either as a snapshot executable or by building it themselves. 2) run through their existing set of scripts and/or commonly executed tasks 3) compare the results with some known benchmark 4) in case of differences, double-check it's not them doing something different 5) write a bug report and send it. This takes time (plus, it also takes time to get bugs fixed); a week is too short IMO. I'd make it a month, but I'm open to change my mind. Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti Dipartimento di Economia Università Politecnica delle Marche r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti _______________________________________________ Gretl-devel mailing list Gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu http://lists.wfu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gretl-devel