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Article #4991Re: Patch release frequency (was Re: When is C News being released?)
From: Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynar...
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 12:22
Date: Mon, 15 May 1989 12:22
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In article <1989May12.154952.3818@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>To me, the issue is not whether patches are necessary, but the frequency
>with which they're issued. Most of the elm patches were marked medium to
>low priority. Why could they not be lumped together in a single patch,
>rather than a few little ones? Why could one not set milestones, say every
>quarter, at which time all non-crucial fixes done since the last patch
>are sent out as a single patch?
>Of course, patches which fix fatal errors get sent right away. But that
>was not the case with elm.
Fatal errors for who? Just one machine? Or everyone?
All of the patches so far, except 3 and 5, fix bugs specific to one
environment. (Possibly patch 6 doesn't, but I haven't gotten that one
yet.) I don't accept that that kind of thing should have to wait even as
long as a month to get distributed, and that's too often according to
your statement above. If the stuff won't run on my system, I want the
fix now if it's known, not two months from now.
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!uhnix1!splut!jay From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Patch release frequency (was Re: When is C News being released?) Message-ID: <2646@splut.UUCP> Date: 15 May 89 12:22:56 GMT References: <24133@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1989May9.191034.3424@utzoo.uucp> <918@twwells.uucp> <3515@alembic.ACS.COM> <1989May12.154952.3818@telly.on.ca> Reply-To: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 25