I believe the reason for Release Candidate is not just to test rails, but other components as well, take this RC for example, it depends on un-released version of sass-rails, and a new version of Sprockets even if Rails did not introduce any regressions that doesn't mean that other components are as safe. The core team simply cannot guarantee that it is working as expected in any environment and for all applications.
Wael On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 14:36, Mislav <mislav.maroh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rails 3.1.2.rc2 just got released. Around the time of the 3.1.1 release, > there was also a relatively evolved release process including announcements > and release candidates. > > Why? > > Minor releases (e.g. 2.x) and major releases (e.g. Rails 2 and Rails 3) > usually add tons of features and, even in minor releases, often include > major refactoring of some parts to improve performance and reduce code > complexity. Both features and major refactoring can introduce new bugs, so > release candidates are offered to users so they can help with development > by testing their applications on the upcoming version. > > But point releases (e.g. 3.1.x) don't add features or change too much > code, they just try to have bugfixes. Bugs are fixed by adding a failing > test and making it pass, while ensuring the rest of the test suite passes > too. This means each point release has less bugs than the previous one. > Upgrading to the newest bugfix release is quick, safe, and should be done > as often as possible. > > In other words, bugfix releases are cheap. Why waste time with release > candidates when we can just get 3.1.2 right away? Then, every fix that > would otherwise be made between 3.1.2.rc2-3.1.2 can just be released as > 3.1.3. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-core/-/Xpwg9tIt2xAJ. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Waêl Nasreddine TechnoGate www.technogate.fr mobile : 06.41.68.38.35 agence : 09.70.444.236 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
