Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 29/07/2016 14:48, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> ...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.
Sounds good. Thanks for taking the time to write that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
