Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany wrote:
Hi Rich,
(non-product, i assume ?)
oh, it does. if you want any testers at all from the community :)
it was discussed almost a year ago on this same mailing list - if you
want testers, make test builds usable.
On the medium run, it indeed might be interesting to give out
non-product builds for developer snapshots (perhaps even exclusively).
So, we indeed should keep end users in mind when discussing about
non-product builds.
reading your other build about non-prod builds allowing to find issues
sooner, i think that indeed has a potential to increase quality a lot.
which reminds me... i stumbled upon a problem where pre-3.3 would
corrupt my documents, but 3.1.1 would work just fine.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107775
would trying to reproduce with non-prod allow to find cause for the
corruption ?
i'm afraid to upgrade to 3.2 because of this issue, i spent two days
diagnosing the problem and trying to recover my documents - if i could
discover the cause by some additional work, that would motivate me a lot.
also... if it would, then i'm back to the strong opinion about oo.org
not closing as long as possible to allow me to recover data from
non-prod builds, which i might start using on a more regular basis.
Ciao
Frank
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Rich
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