[crossfire] Version bump request?

[Nicolas Weeger]

Hello.


I agree on the need to do a release :)


I can't guarantee I'll do a Windows packaged version though.



Regards


Nicolas


Le dimanche 30 mars 2014 16:06:32, Kevin Zheng a écrit :
> On 03/28/2014 10:56, DraugTheWhopper wrote:
> > Right, so assuming that this email gets to the intended place
> > [crossfire], here's a request: is there any chance of getting a new
> > official upstream release? So the story is as follows: I do no coding or
> > developing, but know enough about Linux to run Debian Testing. However,
> > the current upstream version of CF is 1.70.0, which as of a week ago, is
> > about two years old. If i understand correctly, all trunk improvements
> > since then are not in any official upstream release, therefore never get
> > packaged for Debian, and so are not seen by the casual people who merely
> > "apt-get dist-upgrade" occasionally. Is there a chance a version 1.70.x
> > could be released periodically, or is there a 1.99 that could be
> > packaged separately, or should someone just start packaging nightly
> > builds as "crossfire-client-unstable"? Please pardon my ignorance and
> > correct me as necessary.
> 
> Yes, I think it's about time that we cut a new release. Even something
> as minor as "1.70.1" would be good, because it would mean that the
> *many* fixes and improvements are accessible to package users.
> 
> It might not even be a bad idea to cut a minor release every year or so
> on a schedule, because there's really not a lot of release engineering
> that has to be done.
> 
> Right now the code seems stable and no massive changes are being
> planned. Is cutting a release feasible in the next week?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kevin Zheng
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