Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2019, #03; Wed, 13)

From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2019, 06:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20190214064956.GE16125@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190214055315.GK20578@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

> Yeah, I do have the feeling that not many people really exercise our -rc
> candidates. I'm not sure how to improve that. We could try to push
> packagers to make them available (and I think Jonathan already does for
> Debian's "experimental" track).

Similarly, I try to make them available in Fedora's rawhide channel (as well as less officially as builds for current stable Fedora and RHEL/CentOS releases¹). I don't have a good sense of how many git users that reaches, but I haven't had many (or perhaps any?) bug reports from the -rc packages.

I typically wait for -rc1 to push to rawhide, just to give a little time to weed out the early issues. I'd make the Fedora QA folks mad if I pushed a git update that caused them too much grief.

Thankfully, I can't recall ever having such a problem (certainly nothing that most users of git would run into).

> But ultimately I think it is not a packaging/availability question, but
> just that most people do not bother until there is a real release.

Indeed.

¹ Those "less official" packages are:
  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/git-maint/git/ &
  https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/tmz/git/

-- 
Todd