> You're telling me things I already know. The fact is that for as it works now, it > seems that there's not too much difference from taking a good SVN commit and a full > stable release. If you notice, even if there is a full release, on the SVN after some > hours there are already new interesting commits.
he actually has a point. before a release we run several extensive tests to track regressions and fix what is caught, but if you take a generic svn revision you have none of these bigfixes hence, while as of late the differences between main releases and update releases are almost not-existent in stability terms, the differences between a release and the current svn can be quite large
and for the record, the reason why "even if there is a full release, on the SVN after some hours there are already new interesting commits" is exactly that those commits might break functionalities in some drivers and need some more public testing before next release...