Michel Juillard michel.juillard@mjui.fr writes:
It is very urgent to put in place the testing version that we talked about. I have referred several people to the unstable version for things that I fixed over the Summer and we can't having it broken over long periods of time (more than one day, I would say)
In fact, intstead of having stable, (new) testing, unstable, I would suggest that we have stable, unstable (that we try to keep in workable state), (new) experimental which is not supposed to be entirely working. The names will be a bit misleading but it will avoid to have to inform people who download unstable to have to download testing instead.
Personally I prefer the name "testing", it corresponds more to the reality.
However, I realize that if we want to implement this "testing" version only for users who download the snapshot (and not for those who use git), there is no need to create a new branch. I could just modify my snapshot building script so that a new snapshot is only created if all tests pass in the testsuite. The lastest snapshot available for download would therefore correspond to the last working state of the git. From the point of view of users who download the snapshot, this is "observationally equivalent" to having a testing branch.