hello,
>Stefan Taxhet wrote: > >>> Welcome to Open Source 101: "Release Early, Release Often" >>> >>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ ar01s04.html >> >> >> >> That's what we are doing with the developer snapshots since years. >> May be they need some more visibility even if they are not in beta >> quality? > >Sounds like it. I had no idea that there were frequent releases. Where >would I find it? Seeing frequent updates would be a good step towards >encouraging greater community participation. > >I recently suggested that we could have a "testing" branch (name >inspired by Debian). It'd be something between "stable" and >"development". Right now, "stable" gets updated every 3-4 months, and >new new features are added. Just bug fixes (some times). "Development" >is not beta quality, and it gets updated every week. Maybe we should >have a middle point. A "testing" branch that gets updated (say) every 3 >weeks. It'd include new features, but yet would be "reasonably stable". >Sort of beta quality. A while ago, before you joined the community, we had this discussion, about releases, etc. We even formed a Release Committee. The result was the current schema, with "stable" being advertised for end users, and the development builds for testers and developers. With the CWS structure, as i believe JÃrg pointed out, the developer builds are pretty much of beta quality. Where does one find them? Here: <http://download.openoffice.org/680/>. We used to advertise the existence of these on the homepage but that produced some confusion. We advertise the developer build from the immensely popular download.openoffice.org/index.html page. There is also a link on the Development homepage, <http://development.openoffice.org/>. It could be made bigger, to be sure, or we could have more information there regarding how often new builds are issued. New builds are further announced on [email protected], which is the general list for things having to do with releases. The page (680) is also updated after each new build is issued. New builds may also be (I have not checked) announced in the Newsletter; if not, it's a good place. That newsletter is read by *many*. As to the stable updating... it's a bit of an art. As has been repeatedly pointed out, one person's "bug fix" is another's new feature--look at 1.1.1. If people are curious about the release logic and cycle, then they should look at the pages that describe it. See, for starters, <http://development.openoffice.org/releases/index.html>. Of course, we (in this case, Martin and Erwin) also always need help updating the pages and making sure things are presented in a clear fashion, so as to give would-be developers of OOo a better sense of the speed at which OOo is being developed. Best, Louis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
