Received: from mx0.gmx.net (mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]) by h1439878.stratoserver.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Debian-2build1) with SMTP id o9CKHFhj032428 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:17:16 +0200 Received: (qmail 24861 invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2010 20:17:10 -0000 Delivered-To: GMX delivery to rainer.schoepf@gmx.net Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Oct 2010 20:17:10 -0000 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (EHLO relay.uni-heidelberg.de) [129.206.100.212] by mx0.gmx.net (mx091) with SMTP; 12 Oct 2010 22:17:10 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (listserv.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.94]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o9CKFIC0009016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:19 +0200 Received: from listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o9CIEJWw015105; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:17 +0200 Received: by LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 16.0) with spool id 543315 for LATEX-L@LISTSERV.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:17 +0200 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by listserv.uni-heidelberg.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o9CKFHKW019039 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:15:17 +0200 Received: from lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net (lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.150]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o9CKEuAr008639 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:14:59 +0200 Received: from cremornelane.demon.co.uk ([80.177.25.195] helo=palladium.local) by lon1-post-3.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1P5lFI-00072N-eu; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:14:55 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <28586.1286914099@cl.cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4CB4C1B8.30408@morningstar2.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:14:48 +0100 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project From: Joseph Wright Subject: Re: TLcontrib and expl3 snapshots To: LATEX-L@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de In-Reply-To: <28586.1286914099@cl.cam.ac.uk> Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-GMX-Antispam: 0 (Mail was not recognized as spam); Detail=5D7Q89H36p4WX0t+AtsdW7Rkpq2CocXbjmEjLnML/Jh/D5PE3azF+tWbav9NfRPdBjN7A hu2kMqFTMtXwLrawGj72VauG7H+vnQAR+OuQR9OR0XCVwaIInzy4fEfJqoaNwHPgkYGDpJSbT4Wu eSUcQ==V1; X-Resent-By: Forwarder X-Resent-For: rainer.schoepf@gmx.net X-Resent-To: rainer@rainer-schoepf.de Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6459 On 12/10/2010 21:08, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >> I may be mistaken but the way I read the front page of that site it doesn't >> sound as if it is meant for this purpose but rather for more long term hosting >> of material that isn't really supposed to be on CTAN or can't go into TL. >> It is true that they also speak about releases for testing, but still ... > > his original announcement message (to the tex live list) seemed to imply > that it would a happy home for things that may go to tex live proper > some time. > > he's certainly putting luatex binaries on there, and _they'll_ make it > to tex live in due course. (or their descendents will...) My reading was that some kind of testing status material would be acceptable. Quite what that means, however ... >> I would check with Taco if he thinks this would be a good way to make use of >> the site. In any case I would fear 3 days would be too short a period for >> testing > > 3 days does sound a bit optimistic, i would agree. > > things that go into tex live get pounced on quickly, but tlcontrib is > going to have a far smaller audience, hence slower bug-finding, i would > guess. I'm mainly keen to avoid issues with the snapshots where something obvious has been missed (i.e. by me). They are snapshots, after all, but as people are using them 'in the wild' at least some testing beyond my PC would be handy. Suggestions on a reasonable balance time-wise are welcome! -- Joseph Wright