Re: Daily build vs. alpha/beta

2012-09-17 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
John, also note that during these focused testing periods (alpha, beta testing), the images we are testing are the latest daily builds. Sure, now beta1 is old, so if you wanted to do testing today for an image, you should use today's image. At the time we were testing however, it was the daily

Re: Daily build vs. alpha/beta

2012-09-15 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi John, there is a thing called regression. Simply put, a minor bug fix then re-opens a load of bugs that were in containment. This also can occur when the devs bring together several bugs into one release. If they were to put out one release per day / per bug. 12.10 could be expected about t

Daily build vs. alpha/beta

2012-09-15 Thread John Kim
Hello QA, I've been attending school for a few weeks now. I will get my act together and continue contributing. Anyway, I see that a lot of qa testers are trying out the betas and catching some bugs. I understand that the daily builds are the latest, up-to-the-minute Ubuntu distribution, but why