[sldev] Timing of source releases (Re: Sources for WindLight v1.19.0.79674 ?)

[Alissa Sabre]

> > The point of these sldev-commits releases is to give a finer-grained
> > view of our development process. If you see something unwanted pop up,
> > you can pinpoint when it happened to within a couple days now.

I don't think it is easy to find something unexpected from the current
scheme...  It is rather easy to see whether some *expected* changes are
incorporated or not done yet.

That's what I'm using the current commit log primarily for.  It's
useful.  Thank you Soft for doing this.

> For other branches, the only interest of the open source community that 
> I see is a preview of the features.

Yes, preview of features.  In my case, the "features" means "new bug
fixes."

The only problem of the current scheme is, IMHO, that the
corresponding between RC viewers is unclear.

Recently, we have Branch_1-19-0-Viewer branch for 1.19.0 RC (no FL)
viewers.  The binary distribution is called RC0, RC1, ...  In 1.18
ages, source tarballs for RC viewers are called *-RC-1.18.X.Y.xxx if
it is for the viewer 1.18.X RC(Y).  Under the new scheme, the source
tarballs are called *-1-19-0-Viewer-rXXXXX.xxx where XXXXX is the
revision number in the LL internal repository.  It is unclear which
source tarball corresponds to a particular RC binary.  It makes
communication between residents using RC binary viewers difficult.

    Alissa Sabre


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