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
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http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti