James, Am Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:12:25 -0700 schrieb James McKenzie: > eric b wrote: >> Hi Andre, >> >> Le 19 févr. 08 à 21:21, André Schnabel a écrit : >> >>>> >>>> This is plain wrong, and leads people to confusion (.. some >>>> already asked for final version in french newsgroups ) >>> >>> Oh- we even had QA-team members suggesting to release 2.4 aqua >>> builds at the germanophone list :( >>> >> >> You are right : release 2.4 for aqua, will be difficult, but >> provide a development snapshot including all last great changes, >> could be a great idea. >> >> The last development snapshot is too old, and this is not good >> to wait more for the next one. (some other devs think like me) >> > Eric: > > Yes we should release DEVELOPMENT builds and let others know what > they are.
You're addressing the wrong person :-) Eric B. shares the same opinion you do :-) And so do I. I'm also against releasing 2.4 for Aqua but it looks like I'm alone with this opinion amongst the Mac QA in the germanophone project. Sure aqua looks cool and is sort of stable but there are the little things that make potential users run away if we release this 2.4 as final. So announcing it as develpmonent snaphshot is plain right and shows the big progress since the last such release. > There should be NO public release until the entire > suite (including any add-ons) are fully tested and rated > acceptable. Right now, Base is crashing with the Report > Builder/Developer on several platforms. This is definitely not > desired actions and will degrade the program's reputation. You have my support for not releasing release 2.4 to the public as it currently is but I fear that we have not a real chance or a word here. Did you read releases mailinglist? If even sun employes like Frank Schönheit don't understand what made Sun's Release Engineering to mark m7 as RC1 and if even he has no real clue on how to officially nominate a showstopper besides "informal" talks on IRC or inside of the sun building/company works, well how should we -) > So, if others and you feel that a specific release is ready for > regular users, then mark it as ready for release. However, be > ready for any problems that arise because testing is not complete. This is exactly my saying. Regards, Eric -- ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
