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.