I wait until the final release and don't get the RC's. I am not worried about the number of RC's. Too man RC's and it indicates insufficient unit testing, but 1, 2 or 3 seems reasonable.
On other projects I do get RC's, but only when I need the new features and want an early preview. Or projects that are central to my development world that I will be lost if the features I use do not work in the next release, or if I think I use the product in an unusual way that I want to be sure still works in the next release. -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Seelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:52 AM To: directory apache; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Studio] Discussion about the release model Hi Users and Dev, Back in January 2008 we discussed in [1] about the release model of Apache Directory Studio, whether we should have release candidates or not. At that time we decided to introduce release candidates. Now, almost one year later I think we should reconsider this decision. Pierre-Arnaud and I discussed about the release model. In 2008 we released the following versions of Studio: 1.1.0 RC1 1.1.0 RC2 1.1.0 1.2.0 RC1 1.2.0 1.3.0 RC1 1.3.0 RC2 1.3.0 (in a view days) In the last vote about the final 1.3.0 release we discussed whether we could just declare the 1.3.0-RC2 packages as 1.3.0 or if we need to create new packages (with no code change, just new labels). I think we could avoid such discussions if we switch back to the old release model: Once we have enough new features we relaese a new x.y.0 version, Then if a major bug is reported we release a x.y.1 and x.y.2, but only if necessary. Pierre-Arnaud and I collected some arguments, please feel free to add you own. Pro RCs: - helps to not release a really buggy final version - better suits to common Open Source release model Contra RCs: - has less impact on the audience - increases the number of release (which is time consuming) - the feedback we've had from the RCs is very low, we've not received a lot of jiras - increases the number of uploads, downloads and space required on apache and mirror servers and on the maven repository I especially want to ask the users of Apache Directory Studio: Do you use release candidates or do you wait for the final release? Do you prefer to have one or two release candidates or doesn't it matter? Thoughts? Kind Regards, Stefan [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17991.html
