From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 06:54:04 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Feb 2019, #03; Wed, 13)
Message-ID: <20190214065404.GB22932@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190214064956.GE16125@zaya.teonanacatl.net>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:49:56AM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for doing that. Despite what I said earlier, I expect these
releases at least hit _some_ people (just not as many as I'd wish for in
an ideal world). And every additional user who may report a bug during
the -rc period is a win.

-Peff