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Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2020, #01; Wed, 3)

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Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
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Jun 6, 2020, 13:57 UTC
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On 05/06/2020 02:46, Elijah Newren wrote:
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> Another consideration we could make is just scheduling .1 releases
> automatically, and not limiting them to security fixes but instead
> considering the same kinds of things that would be allowed around the
> time of -rc1 or -rc2.  I still want to push to make the quality of .0
> releases as high as we can, but given that human nature seems to lean
> towards avoiding things until they are labelled as official, and since
> we benefit from that wider feedback, maybe we adjust slightly to take
> advantage of natural behavior and do .1 releases?  Anyway, just a
> thought.

Maybe simply tag the current master every 2 weeks of the cycle (.wk2, .wk4, wk6), as appropriate, just to give potential users/testers a stake in the ground to reference to.

Or maybe a 'mid cycle' .mc1 release for a similar 'nudge' effect [1] of 'try this one'.

Philip
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
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  1. Junio C HamanoJun 3, 2020
  2. Elijah NewrenJun 4, 2020
  3. Christian CouderJun 4, 2020
  4. Christian CouderJun 4, 2020
  5. Kaartic SivaraamJun 6, 2020
  6. Christian CouderJun 7, 2020
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 4, 2020
  8. Elijah NewrenJun 5, 2020
  9. Philip OakleyJun 6, 2020
  10. brian m. carlsonJun 4, 2020

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