On Mar 12, 2011, at 4:29 PM, bluegaspode wrote: > If a week before a release you'd announce a release-candidate build or > something similar I might get back into installing such a ersion. > For me (regardless of whether I have the 'user' or 'developer' hat on) > this would be a great advantage: > - I don't have to cope with nightly builds and their possible negative > impact of your nightly commits that only have gone through your own > personal QA. > - I can focus on possible problems in a dedicated timeframe, not every > day. > - I would have more trust in such a version as a release candidate > typically means that the developer QA and maybe even official QA has > been done. Also typically this comes with a feature freeze - and any > new change needs to be peer reviewed. > - Along with the people that will still run nightlies I guess even more > people (like me) would be willing to install a release candidate than a > nightly. So you get even better QA from the community before the > version goes out to any user out there in the Squeezbox universe.
Yeah this RC idea is a good one. We usually have an RC build a week or two before release for our own QA team, I just think we don't usually mention this fact to the community for some reason. I will see to it that that changes for 7.5.4, and I'll announce when an RC build(s) is available. _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezenetwork
