[erlang-questions] minor releases in Erlang?

[Dave Cottlehuber]

> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
>  
> > I'd like to add my 2 cents.
> >
> > Many users are hit by this issue, and many users will be hit by this issue
> > at least until 17.4 is released (and that's me hoping 17.4 will be an
> > official release).
A+, Dave
— sent from my Couch

+1

We’ve avoided this to a point on OSX & FreeBSD by getting the upstream patch included in homebrew and FreeBSD pkg promptly, pointing to the “secret” 17.3.4 tarball or before that was available including the single patch. I am sure the OTP team has good reasons for not doing the full publicity run, but a simple announcement email of the new unofficial release tag on the ML would be a great compromise in ensuring distro packages are able to be updated, hopefully with minimising additional work on their side.

Dave