Thank you for your responses Andre. I agree with all that you have said
this and at other times on the matter.
This is the only point that I would like to discuss further.
We have always announced the release candidates widely assuming that
the QA team are in the thick of it and the most aware.
No, that has been started with 1.1.2 or 1.1.3. Before that time we used
to announce RC within the project but not to the enduser.
Prior to 1.1.2 our community was much smaller. I would say too, that our
community now consists of many more endusers, whereas our early endusers
tended to be people and organisations that did not subscribe to our
lists or participate in their way previously.
So now our "endusers" are perhaps those that are more aware being part
of the community and there are those that do not form part of our
community and perhaps considered the "public" or endusers-at-large.
I hesitated about sending the announcement to announce@ for this very
reason. But saw that the 1.1.4rc
(http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=225)
announcement was sent to this list, so sent the 1.1.5rc one.
Perhaps we can re-visit the process on the QA project list. I really
would like to invite more people to join the QA project as I find that
when a release is made this is when we have the discussions of "I
didn't know it was going to work that way" when it has been
progressing that way for months :(
http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=489067
Has been stopped (imo), as:
- discussion abut re-establishing the release committee slowed down
- current (formal) QA-Leads don't care
Yes you are right, you introduced a very good summary as to how you saw
the release process from a QA pov. I too documented the marketing or
publicity process wrt not just releases but all pr. This too was
commented on and then left.
Other than my attempt to stick to what was documented and encouraging
discussion as you have done, I don't know what to suggest.
I have been mostly out of list discussions this last three months, and
I'm sorry if I have missed an important discussion or community decision
during this time.
Regards
Jacqueline
(who is already worrying about how to explain a second beta)
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