I think many users see a beta as something you better not touch, but a release candidates can be trusted much more. I know it's not intended that way but people learned by experiences. [?]
Maybe "pre release" or "preview" could be a name to show the final status? ________________________________ From: Development <development-bounces+marco.bubke=qt...@qt-project.org> on behalf of Thiago Macieira <thiago.macie...@intel.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 3:45:37 PM To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process Em ter?a-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2016, ?s 13:34:39 BRST, Tuukka Turunen escreveu: > If desired, we could use some other name than "Release Candidate 1" for the > release that begins the last phase of the release. It could be called "Beta > 2" or "Technology preview", if so desired. Personally, I would call it > "Release Candidate 1". > > The difference to our current process is quite small. In essence it would be > about considering the "RC1" the beginning of the final releasing phase (.0 > branch), not something we do almost at the end of it. I believe that > lowering the quality criterial for "RC1" helps us in being more efficient > as it has been in practice impossible to really fulfill the current process > goal and have already the first RC as good as the final. I like the process, but I would also rename the release like you proposed. We can't have something called "release candidate" when we *know* it's not a candidate. Let's call it beta 2, beta 3, etc. until we can make it a release. Release candidates are really the snapshots that the release team creates when we're testing for sanity right before the actual release. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
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