Oscar, Well put. Thanks for your perspective. It is clear on the download pages what is released and what is candidate, let the sysadmins go for it.
I guess I figure that if I install a release it should be expected to work without major testing, while a RC should be thoroughly vetted before turning on to production. One day this may come back to haunt me... Bill -----Original Message----- From: Oscar del Rio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Roller 2.2-incubating RC3 available 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.
