[Grok-dev] Over 2 months, and no new release?

[Alec Munro]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
<janwijbrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Alec Munro <alecmunro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are there guidelines somewhere regarding when a new release is made? I
>> ask because the current release has several bugs that inhibit
>> installation on Windows, and they have been fixed in trunk for quite a
>> while.
>
> There're guidelines on *how* to make a new release, there're no
> guidelines on *when*.
>
>> It's baffling to me that this is allowed to continue. How hard could
>> it be to simply do a release with those fixes? Especially with PyCON
>> going on, I think it's insulting to all of the effort that has gone
>> into making Grok what it is, that this issue has been left unresolved
>> for so long.
>
> Apparently it is resolved, just not released. Do I understand that correctly?
>

Yes.

>> I've volunteered my services as an official Windows tester, but
>> haven't received any response.
>
> It is unfortunate that you didn't get any response, because it is
> obviously great to have a volunteer for this! Were you waiting for
> specific instructions?
>
I was hoping to establish some kind of formal process for the testing
my team would be doing. We can just use it and file bugs, if that's
all that's needed.

> Are you able to test the grok trunk to see if it these installation
> problems are indeed resolved? If that's the case, I guess I could pull
> a release - but I do not at this moment have too much time to do a lot
> of coordination. Just pulling a release from whatever currently is the
> trunk shouldn't take that long though.
>
I'm not sure what the best way to test the trunk would be. Since the
issues that are concerning me at the moment relate to deployment, just
syncing the code and running our app on it probably wouldn't cover
those issues. But I'm also not sure what the best way to get trunk
would be in general.
>
> Does anyone know if there's anything blocking a 1.0a2 release?
>
>
> regards,
> jw
> --
> Jan-Wijbrand Kolman
>

Thanks for the quick response.