But if we don't test them, bugs would not have been found.
I think it is up to sysadmins if we want to test RC versions on small sites like
ours. We know the difference between RC versions and released versions and are
willing to test them and contribute back with feedback or patches, even if we
are not developers, just admins (and a user myself).
Of course before any upgrade (RC or release) you should test basic functionality
and the upgrade process by installing the new version in a test machine.
I agree that large sites might want to wait for stable releases but it
doesn't mean that release candidates should be hidden away.
Even blogs.sun.com is running 2.2 that has not been released yet.
We are happily running 2.2-RC2 because it introduced features and fixed
several bugs of 2.1 that some of our users were not happy about.
Tribley William-cwt010 wrote:
Dave,
From my perspective as a user, I don't want to install a version that is
not considered release quality. Given the iterations on 2.2, I'd say the
earlier release candidates should not have been installed by users, so
it was better not to know about them. As a developer, I don't think you
want users to be running beta-quality code thinking it is production
quality code, you will get a lot of superfluous user email.
I read the roadmap, it looks like 2.3 is going to be released this
month. Does that mean that 2.2 is dead, or are there plans to release
2.2 if the present rc5 is accepted?
I guess what I am trying to say is users should never install release
candidates, only approved releases.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:14 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Noel J. Bergman; Henri Yandell
Subject: Re: Roller 2.2-incubating RC3 available
I've been sending RC notices only to the Roller-dev list, those notices
include the changes made in each RC.
Noel and Henri: is there a problem with announcing RC releases more
widely?
Oscar: here are the RC fix lists:
RC3 fix list:
ROL-1098: import bookmarks was missing from UI
RC4 fix list:
ROL-1106: Incorrect RSS channel <link> in site-wide feed
ROL-1104: Missing planet jars (due to JSTL 1.1 upgrade)
ROL-1103: RSS titles not encoded properly (a regression)
RC5 fix list
ROL-1108: cannot post immediately after making a post
- Dave
