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Hi Michael,
On 03/05/2011 13:30, Michael Meeks wrote:

On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 21:28 +0300, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Yes I do too, but the issue is that we didn't test the betas at all yet
due to this bug

        Which sucks; hopefully the Windows&  Mac builds have been use-able for
testing - and of course, the snapshots of them.

Not sure about Mac, but I think we have a lot of testers under Linux.

and it covers a quiet large range of distributions. So, may be we should
really take time to test the RC fully before really calling it an RC
and spread the word around it.

        The danger of this - is that by introducing further delay into the
release pipeline - we slow down our ability to respond to bugs that are
found, and since we are releasing a build per week anyway - we can only
really choose to miss out a week: which isn't that wonderful :-) Already
we only have a few days to fix a bug in RC<n>  and get the fix out in
RC<n+1>.

        -Far- better for people to be running and using the daily snapshot
releases and reporting bugs against them - instead of waiting for RCs
(per-se).

Yes agreed, there is a lot of room for improvement on the testing side. But betas are supposed to be tested too :)

        Having said that - warning that RC1 may be a bit rough in the release
notes is a good idea :-)

But a RC1 is supposed to be a release candidate, so how could it be rough? I mean I understand all the reasons you have given above about correction of bugs, etc. And I know we have a good part of responsibility for not pointing the stopper at the good time. What I'm trying to highlight also here is the communication. It's quiet frustrating to not be able to install a version when you want to contribute to tests, and having a RC that is rough sound strange for me.

- although, given that this is caused by some
obscure compiler problem - apparently only present on the gross / old
system we compile the binaries on for Linux, I'm optimistic that once it
is fixed we'll not be in such terrible shape.

Ok, let see.

Kind regards
Sophie

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