[mythtv] What can packagers/distro developers do to help the stability of "released" version of MythTV?

[Isaac Richards]

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:21 pm, Klaus Weidner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> would you consider using a "mostlystable" CVS tag in the repository, and
> have that updated occasionally to point to a CVS version that doesn't
> have known critical problems? I think this would be much less work than
> doing a real release with all the packaging and documenting that implies.
> Other projects do that with apparently fairly good results.
>
> The documentation could mention how to get that (add "-r mostlystable" to
> the cvs command line), and recommend it to people who want to use the new
> code but don't want to be quite on the extreme bleeding edge.
>
> This would help avoid problems like today's change that was known to
> break modules - people who track "mostlystable" wouldn't get that code
> until the change is finished.  If the developers consider a new feature
> to be ready for further testing, just update the tag to point to that
> release.

With very few exceptions, cvs head is always 'mostlystable'.

Isaac