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RFC: creating a bison-announce list


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: RFC: creating a bison-announce list
Date: 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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