The Illusion of Stability

Nice post. Chrome's release model has inspired me to create a web deployment tool at work, which I've been hacking away on for the last couple of weeks.

pquerna (and others), what would you like to see in a next-generation web deployment/packaging tool? The first thing that came to mind in the middle of the post was pinning to a project's revision while having tests against its interface. A feature to move that pin to a newer rev, then running those tests before deploying to production might be nice.

I integrated Flourish (http://github.com/wbond/flourish) into a project at work yesterday morning. I went back to the website later to check something in the docs, and noticed he'd committed another revision. How was I supposed to know? I could poll http://github.com/wbond/flourish/commits/master.atom for new releases, but we've got a bunch of dependencies too. Maybe the solution is to just regularly pull changesets and run your tests, then deploying to staging and hope all is well.

How about Dulwich? hg-git depends on it, but 0.5 had a bug that prevented me from pushing to GitHub successfully. I was using Dulwich trunk for a while, and noticed yesterday that 0.6 has been released. The bug fixes are in [repo root]/NEWS. There are no formal release notes.

We've been using a known-working revision of projects until someone gets around to checking for updates, but I'm not sure that's ideal.