Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
A while ago, before you joined the community, we had this discussion,THAT is that Joerg was talking about? Based on what I've seen since I began using them (around m71) those are definitely *not* beta quality. Large parts of the functions just did not work at all. Linda has been delayed on writing the Draw Guide for 2.0 because it wasn't until a few weeks ago it just didn't work.
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.
Here's another example of what an early development release can look like:
http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/screenshot.png
This wasn't even that early. It was in the m80's.
No no no. This isn't what I'm talking about. When I talk about "testing", I mean something more stable than a development branch, but not necessarily as much as stable. Right now, the only things that go into stable releases are bug-fixes. So people who want to add a new feature (for example, the word count macro) can't. Even if the feature is just a macro.
A Testing branch would be a place where those things could appear. A contributor would be able to make relatively simple feature enhancements (word count macro, adding statistical functions to Calc, etc) and see them in the testing branch. And users could have a reasonable expectation of using te Testing branch with fairly high reliability.
Also consider the discussion about the Ximian fork. The Ximian OOo gets patches accepted in a lot quicker than the stable branch, and it even backports some patches from Sun's development branch. So it's definitely more maleable than Sun's "stable" branch. Yet, it's more reliable than Sun's "development" branch. In fact, it's reliable enough that Linux distros use it.
Cheers, Daniel.
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