<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Herber</b> <<a href="mailto:nospam@eton.ca">nospam@eton.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
When beta 21 was issued, the release announcement posted here stated<br>that it was "unstable". I can't find any posting about beta 22 from<br>PM. Has it fixed the instability? Is it not officially released?<br>
<br>I checked the archives and can't find an announcement there either.<br><br>I want to upgrade from 2.0.12, but would like to use a "stable" beta<br>(not an oxymoron in the case of PmWiki).</blockquote><div><br>
Hi, Neil: I'm holding at 2.0.12, too. I know you were "away" from
the discussion here for a while, so I don't know if you saw another
exchange on that subject, from
<a href="http://host.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2006-January/022288.html">http://host.pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users/2006-January/022288.html</a><br>
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<pre>On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:50:48PM -0600, Tegan Dowling wrote:<br>><i> I'd really like to be able to update my wikis from 2.0.12 to one that<br></i>><i> includes the new AuthUser, RSS and wildcard functionality, but whatever I
<br></i>><i> next update to, I'd like it to be stable enough that I could hold there<br></i>><i> for a while. Do you ever try, during the beta development process, to<br></i>><i> release a few that just implement a bugfixes without adding new functions,
<br></i>><i> as a way to create a fairly bugfree between-real-realease version? <br></i>><i> <br></i>><i> If you normally don't, is it something you'd consider? (Is there a better<br></i>><i> way to express this?) Is this a reasonable question, or does it pretty
<br></i>><i> much conflict with the point of beta development?<br></i><br>It sorta goes against the point of beta development. However, getting<br>the 404 Page Not Found implementation and the ability to have wildcarded
<br>names were the last really big items needed for the 2.1 release. <br>The remaining items -- see PITS:00565 -- are all relatively minor<br>in terms of stability.<br><br>(I'm still hoping to get blogging and page comments integrated really
<br>soon, but I think those can happen independently of the 2.1 release.)<br><br>So, I would expect the next few releases to be primarily bug fixes,<br>documentation updates, and minor improvements, and then 2.1.0<br>should come out after that (and be fairly stable). And I don't
<br>have any plans for another beta series for quite some time.<br><br>However, there's one last item I'd like to clean up while we're<br>in beta (see next message).<br><br>Pm<br></pre>
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</div><br></div>So I'm just waiting, because it looks like it should be soon, now.<br>