Hi Squirrel, On Apr 6, 2008, at 8:51 PM, Squirrel wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I don't know if you're like me but I have the strong feeling we >> should >> be better at not introducing regressions. One of the goal of XE 1.3 >> and now again XE 1.4 was more stability and more automated tests. >> >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent > > > I'm not a developer but a user, nevertheless I'd like to give you my 2 > cents: > > I would prefer if you would do minor changes with only small or no > impact to > the user (simply copy the new files into this and this folder and > you get a > performance boost or higher security or whatsoever; If it were that simple! There's no silver bullet unfortunately. Adding stuff that suddenly makes the application faster, better, etc with no change to the application is very rare... :) Or maybe I missed what you were saying? > or even an integrated > update-manager a la firefox) to the stable branch (maybe with > somebody who > is responsible for the stable one) and beside this branch a developing > branch with a longer release-cycle. The benefit would be, that you > have more > time to develop stuff (maybe bigger changes) and it does not affect > the > general user because he is supposed to use the stable branch. Right > now the > release-cycle is too fast for me as a user (sound strange but it's > true for > me) to keep up with Xwiki. That's an interesting statement that requires more input: 1) Why do you need to upgrade? 2) Why is hard to upgrade? Re the stable/branch/etc that's exactly what we do... :) We have the milestones/RC that last for about 3-4 months so we only release a new version every 3-4 months. We can hardly call this quick! Moreover you should know that the longer a release the less stable it is in general since there are more stuff in it. From a user point of view the best is to get the shortest possible release cycle. This is what ensures the best quality in general. The Hudson project for example releases every day or every 2 days and that's the greatest possible. I'd love that we be able to do that with XWiki and this is my personal target. Thanks for your feedback. -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
