Hello, On 04/11/13 23:39, Ben Reser wrote: > One of the things we discussed in Berlin was that we wanted to produce alphas > off trunk so that users would have an earlier opportunity to provide feedback. > > Branko has been proding me for the past two weeks to get a 1.9.0 alpha > started. > So to that end I'd like to suggest that next week we produce a 1.9.0-alpha1 > off trunk.
Isn't "producing an alpha" essentially just the same as pointing people at a specific tarball made from a trunk revision that the project considers worthy of testing? This already exists: http://subversion.apache.org/source-code.html#nightlies http://ci.apache.org/projects/subversion/nightlies/index.html I don't suppose you want whole signing off dance? This being a source based release, any alpha tester would already know how to get and a build form a nightly tarball or source tree checkout. So doesn't this just boil down to a project communication to the intended audience outlining the state of development and inviting specific testing and feedback from interested users? That is, unless you also reach out to distribution package maintainers, binary vendors and integrators who may produce (properly marked) binaries? Also, mind you, if you produce an alpha you encourage feedback on it while discouraging anything on changes later in trunk until you produce another. How does this compare to "test trunk@123 which has XZY, which we call alphaN"? Andreas
