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The GNQS Maintainer has the master source tree. He (or
she) is responsible for incorporating all changes into the master source
tree, and for publishing the master source tree.
The Maintainer will do their best to discuss any changes on
the NQS-Developers mailing list before making them. The Maintainer
may even ask the members on the list to 'vote' on a particular
issue. However, the Maintainer can (and sometimes does!)
choose to totally disregard the list if necessary, at the risk of
upsetting the GNQS users.
Source tree releases will take one of two forms:
This is a release with untested features; the release is made
available so the changes can be tested by the wider GNQS developer
community.
It is strongly recommended that users do not use a
pre-production release on a production machine (unless, of course,
they know what they are doing!)
Pre-production releases are always announced on the NQS-Developers
mailing list. A tar'd gzip'd source file is always uploaded to www.gnqs.org.
This is a release which includes changes which have already been
tested at the pre-production release stage.
Production releases are always announced on the NQS-Announce
mailing list. A tar'd gzip'd source file is always uploaded to www.gnqs.org.
Any release of GNQS must include releasing
the source code. This is a fundamental requirement of the GNU
General Public License. |