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[Johan Jansson <jjan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Anders Logg wrote:
> Release early and often is a good thing. There just hasn't been much
> pressure to get a release out for a while (probably since most
> users/developers use the hg version anyway).
>
>   
Do open projects which use DOLFIN make releases which rely on the hg 
version? Could someone from such a project comment on what they do? What 
does Simula do when they make a release of open software which relies on 
DOLFIN?
> Depending on what state the code is in when someone asks for a
> release, it may take from just a day to a couple of weeks to get a
> release ready. So if you just ask for a release earlier (like a couple
> of weeks before you need it), then it shouldn't be a problem.
>
> The dolfin-incremental thing looks like it complicates things. An
> alternative would be to make automatic daily snapshots so you can
> depend on dolfin-2008-01-16 for example.
>   
I don't think it's practical to depend on automatic snapshots, you would 
have to time your commands to some daily or hourly script, it seems a 
bit cumbersome. But sure, why not build on the snapshot system. When you 
want a persistent snapshot release, you run the snapshot script with a 
date tag. Or?
> On a related note, can we remove dolfin-stable and
> dolfin-testing? They haven't been updated for 6 months
I think we should have a working system in place before we remove old 
systems. But they can be removed if we have a usable alternative.

 Johan