On 29/07/2016 14:48, Richard Gaskin wrote:
With the conference just days away I'd understand if you don't have time
for this right now, but when you do it might be helpful to get a brief
overview of the development process which helps us better understand the
purpose of continuing 8.0 while 8.1 is in development, and to know if
there's anything we can do to help see 8.1 builds more frequently so we
can continue testing the new features without running into the ones
already fixed in the 8.0 series.
People have production applications that they need to deploy, and there
are bugs in LiveCode that affect them. They need a maintenance branch
of LiveCode where they get regular GM releases that they can rely on not
to break their existing apps.
Usually, we try to make maintenance branch releases at the same time as
DP releases.
The main things that have been blocking making any releases at all for
the past couple of weeks have been some nasty crash problems (which
were, ironically, introduced by a _fix_ for some nasty crash problems,
but that's software development for you) and a build issue that meant we
weren't able to reliably produce LiveCode Indy and Business engines for
Windows.
Panos is currently performing pre-release QA for a LiveCode 8.1.0 DP 3
release, and if there are no serious problems found, I expect that the
release will be very soon!
On the subject of frequency: the core dev team currently tries to make
one maintenance branch release and one development branch release during
each two week sprint. I don't expect that it will be sustainable to
have a release cadence that's any faster than that.
Peter
--
Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager
LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/
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