I am a moderator on the en forum but I am speaking only for myself here. I think gathering feedback on the forum would be a good solution. The en forum has a User Experience area that gets very little traffic and could perhaps be used to gather beta build input. Feedback in languages other than English could be gathered on the appropriate forums, though they may need to make a dedicated area. It would be nice to widen the range of participants beyond people comfortable in English.
I am not sure what the concern is behind the comment "What I mean is, is there enough coverage of moderators and power users?". On the en forum we have close to 24 hour coverage of moderators and volunteers and I don't think an increase in traffic from a beta build would be a problem. The es forum is the only other one I have experience with and I think there are plenty of moderators and volunteers there to handle an increase in traffic, though I obviously have not asked them about this. I would be happy to make note on this list of interesting or repeated input about a beta build appearing on the en or es forums. Stating the correct way to give feedback on the Splash screen should be considered. best regards, Francis On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:53 PM Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 28.01.19 um 19:39 schrieb Jim Jagielski: > > Perfect, thx. > > > > Just so I know, what's the procedure for us doing beta releases? Where > do they go? > > this will be our first beta release here at Apache. So, nobody can tell > you what to do / where to go and we have to find the way together. ;-) > > I would say we should not do things different (at least not too many) > compared to our normal releases. > > After thinking a bit I suggest that we: > > - exchange the splash screen with a big and clear hint that it's a beta > (no production use, no regular support, etc.) > - prepare the install files as a normal release but with special file names > - no participation with the update service > - upload the install files to SourceForge in an own subdir > - offer them on our download webpage > > I don't know how we can to collect the feedback. BZ is not the right > channel for this. Can we create a special beta area in the forums? What > I mean is, is there enough coverage of moderators and power users? > > Marcus > > > > >> On Jan 28, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Mechtilde <o...@mechtilde.de> wrote: > >> > >> Hello Jim, > >> > >> the beta version should contain the recent translation, so I will start > >> to prepare an update of the *.sdf files. > >> > >> Kind regards > >> > >> Am 28.01.19 um 14:20 schrieb Jim Jagielski: > >>> I think we are at a stage where we should consider doing our > >>> 1st beta release of 4.2.0... we have successful builds for macOS, > >>> Linux 32 and 64, and Windows; we have a stable 4.2.0-dev branch, > >>> and enough changes to warrant a beta release for testing and > >>> feedback (all IMO ;) ). > >>> > >>> Any comments or other thoughts? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
