The Mandrake Development Cycle

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"Generally the development cycle goes like this:

 

1) Free for all... developers upgrade packages to put new versions in,

bug fixes, whatever needs to be done or is desierable to be done.

2) Soft Freeze, No new versions of software are to be done. Only bug

fixes. If a new version is needed to get a bug fix (it can't be

patched) then it will be put in. Generally one or 2 betas goes out

before this happens.

3) Hard Freeze, Only critical bug fixes will be applied. Smaller bugs

generally aren't patched. This tends to happen around the release

canidate stage.

4) Release

 

Betas, Release Canidates, and the final releases are just snapshots of

where cooker stood at a particular time. When the snapshot occurs is

a decision that Mandrake makes behind the sense. So you're basically

right about how it goes.

 

Ben Reser"

 

Quoted from the Cooker Mailing List

 

Bluebeard.