Re: ognus

[Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> 5.8.7 has multiple outstanding bugs

In the old days, this would result in a rapid "fixed in zgnus-0.2"
or somesuch if on the developer list (now it's "fixed committed");
if asked somewhere else (e.g. USENET), "will be fixed in gnus-5.8.8".

We do not have Lars (or anyone) doing releasing this
quickly any more, so there are three options, relevant to
other projects which release slowly:

        1. "will be fixed in next Gnus release, don't know when that will be"

        2. "fix pulled up to gnus-5.8.7, grab it by:
           "    a/ applying patches found at <URL>
           "    b/ cvs -d :pserver:gnus@cvs.gnus.org:/usr/local/cvsroot \
           "       checkout gnus -rgnus-5.8.7_patched
           " or if you've done (b) before
           "    c/ cd <path-to-gnus-5.8.7_patched>
           "       cvs update -dP"

        3. "if you're very brave, you can track CVS Gnus"

We seem to be stuck on option three, which is probably the
worst choice for the volunteers who currently do all the
CVS committing and answering questions in various big
venues (e.g. USENET).

There are trade-offs between the first two; one requires
frequent releasing, the other requires policing pull-ups
to the appropriate tag, and storing (in the ftp/www archive)
the pull-ups as patches.

        Sean.