I was going to blog about this, but I realized I didn't know if 10.2 was
officially beta or not. I guess that happens after we branch and Rick
flips the beta bit?
If I were to blog about getting 10.2 tested today (before we're
officially beta), what do I say? Should they get the latest snapshot?
Should they pull a nightly build? Should I tell them beta is coming out
next week? Should I wait for the first beta snapshot?
Thanks,
David
Kathey Marsden wrote:
Dear Development Community,
I find myself very concerned about the small amount of feedback we have
gotten so far from the user community on 10.2. We have heard no feedback
really positive or negative on the major new features, like
grant/revoke, SUR, online-backup and JDBC 4.0. We've gotten a few
bites for existing application testing for the
RegressionSearchAndDestroy contest [1] and we have gotten a couple of
regressions filed from users trying 10.2, but after a year of
development I just don't have the feeling users are really out there
pounding on it like they need to with such an incredibly concentrated
beta period.
How can we make a big splash with the Beta Announcement and follow-up to
get users pounding on 10.2 to make sure this is a quality release? I am
interested in ideas from the community.
Kathey
[1] http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/RegressionSearchAndDestroy
