On 04.04.2011 19:51, Stefan Sperling wrote:
Should we start building 1.7 binaries and ask people to test them? We might call it beta testing or even "early access builds" or somesuch. I don't really care about the name.
+1 on the alpha / preview / whatever release. The feedback should help e.g. focusing on real-world usage issues with WC-NG.
But there seems to be increased interest in 1.7 among our user base.
I noticed a significant increase in feedback on the TSVN dev list lately. Seems that people sense the 1.7 release finally drawing closer.
TortoiseSVN is already providing binaries based on trunk code and we've already received useful feedback because of this.
Just a reminder: Those binaries are strictly unsupported and unofficial.
Related documention would of course contain warnings about using these binaries on production data. The idea is to make it easier for people to run 1.7 since we've rarely received test reports for our source code beta releases in the past.
How would we coordinate that release from a practical standpoint? We might just pick a random revision, say April 18th, 0:00 UTC, branch from there, add notes, do quick fixes as needed and then release over the course of that week. -- Stefan^2.
