Hi, Rich wrote: > On 2009.03.17. 19:56, Mathias Bauer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Oliver-Rainer Wittmann - Software Engineer - Sun Microsystems wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Thorsten Ziehm wrote: > ... >>> IMHO, we do not find critical problems (show stoppers) in DEV builds >>> very early, only half of them are found early according to my >>> experience. >>> Some data about the show stoppers, which I have fixed in the last days: > > thinking about time when bugs are found i got reminded about one issue - > actually getting the dev/testing builds. > i'll admit ignorance about how these things are handled, but that might > also help to understand how many possible testers would see it. > from my point of view, dev snapshots aren't always available fast > enough, and quite often in dev series only every other build is > available to public. of course, this means less testing and testing > later in the development process. > > for example, currently supposedly OOO310_m6 is available, public > download - m5 > > supposedly DEV300_m43 is available, public download - m41 > > ideally, dev snapshouts would be built & distributed automatically as > soon as possible, and all of them. otherwise testers of development > versions will either always come in later in the cycle, or only > dedicated qa involved people will do testing, who know where/how to get > a more recent dev snapshot - but that probably wouldn't quite qualify as > a sufficient real world usage...
I fully agree with you. Kind regards Sophie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.org
