On 23 Oct 2013, at 10:54, Torsten Bergmann <astares@gmx.de> wrote:
"Pharo launcher" [1] has the ability to download and run images. It really helps avoiding chaos on the hard disk and I can only recommend to others to give it a try.
One nice side effect is that one can download actual images depending on image number (update version). As we have seen this is also very helpful when hunting bugs that are introduced by new updates, see [2]
Together with the release mails and its references to issues in the issue tracker one can easily reproduce each build. But one always has to look into the mail archive to get infos about the updates.
Dont know how the release mails are written by integrators (manual or automagically with a tool) but it looks like we switch to GitHub commit mails these days [3].
IMHO it would also be helpful if we would have a single "Summary page" on Pharo.org or directly under "updates.pharo.org" with a complete list of all the updates:
Pharo 3.0 - 30516 - 30515 - ... Pharo 2.0 - 20624 - 20623 - ...
and when clicking the update/version numbers one can get detailed infos about the update and the corresponding links to issue tracker. Maybe the info is there in a format that can accessed also from within Pharo for future release management tools.
One possible way would be by having each FogBugz issue assigned an update number when a fix get integrated and maybe such a summary page can be generated directly from the issue tracker. Is this already existing or planned?
Any comments?
do it. The problem is that not everything that would be nice can be done just because the day has just 24 hours. Marcus