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RFC: creating a bison-announce list
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Akim Demaille |
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RFC: creating a bison-announce list |
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Mon, 24 Dec 2018 18:00:12 +0100 |
Hi all,
Recent history has shown that bugs are discovered too late, in a rather
incremental fashion (I'm about to release 3.2.4), mostly revealed when Bison is
finally updated in the main distros. I believe that much of this could have
been avoided if Bison users were given a chance to try a beta before the final
release, or even if Bison users were warned about a new release earlier.
Reading any of the existing list would let you know that a release in ongoing,
however, no list is really appropriate:
- bug-bison is not a list people like to read
- bison-help is low traffic, but mostly to get help from kind people
- bison-patches has too much traffic
Maybe creating bison-announce, which would be only about major events (releases
and prereleases), would help?
You guys, in To:, have been involved in recent bugs. Would you consider
subscribing to such a list, and occasionally give a try to Bison before it hits
the distros? I'm asking because this list would be useless if no-one
subscribes to it and if nobody checks the tarballs. Of course, it would be
totally fine not to do it! the "There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE" bit applies to you just as
to us ;-). It's just an honest poll, not a way to ask any form of commitment
from you (and more generally, of Bison users).
WDYT?
Cheers, and merry xmas! Tonight, Santa's sleigh will be pulled by Bisons.
(Apparently, someone already had this idea,
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/72/40/5b/72405bb4709ced0ba53636582c2a10ee.jpg).
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