Preparing Games Spin hopefully for the alpha release

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Jan 11 04:35:37 UTC 2009


On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 17:06:59 -0500,
  Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I'd like to get an official Games Spin posted with the alpha release.
>> Because its going to be close getting the Feature Approved in time, I wanted
>> to check if there is any steps that releng is going to want done that I haven't
>> been told about yet, so that I can try to get these done now rather than
>> when i might have only a day or two.
>
> The "Feature" would actually need to be approved before the Feature  
> Freeze, one week before the Beta Freeze, iirc.

I was worried for Spins that the feature status would impact whether or not
there was an alpha version of the spin. That isn't something that is normally
a concern for features. I would really like to get some more testing done.
This is especially true as F11 has had a number of issues that has slowed
down testing on my end.
Also there is the 4 GiB issue. I am hearing arguments on both sides. As such
I think it would be nice to try > 4 GiB for the alpha and fall back to
< 4 GiB for the beta if there are significant problems. (Assuming the Spins
SIG is OK with that.)


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