> -----Original Message----- > On Thursday, 12 April 2018 01:42:29 PDT Jani Heikkinen wrote: > > And at this same time I want to propose that we stop delivering alpha > > or beta releases and just do snapshots instead. Publishing regular > > snapshots should be done until we are ready for RC. That because I > > don't see that much need for those anymore. Those are nowadays kind of > > milestones and in my opinion makes whole process a bit > > unclear/difficult (we don't have very good definitions for Alpha and Beta > releases). > > Yes we do. > > Alpha means feature complete, asking for feedback on the API and new > functionality. > > Beta means implementation complete, asking for feedback on the quality of the > implementation, seeking bugs and regressions to be fixed. > > RC means we've fixed everything we knew.
I wholeheartedly agree with Thiago. The distinction may not make a difference from the release team perspective but it makes a world of difference for developers (who have different limitations for each step) and the world as they can decide how bleeding edge the code is that they want to test. I have a problem with the motivation behind this suggestion too (don't understand it). The naming makes no difference for you as release manager (afaict just a label). Why suggesting it aka what do you want to gain by doing snapshots only? -- Alex _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development