On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Frode Nordahl wrote:
I think it would really help to announce and release a beta or release candidate some time before the release, as this most certainly will make more people test and hopefully find more of these problems before the final release hits the press.
I always make my latest sources available. The only exception is that I withhold sources that I know are broken.
Put another way, every development snapshot is believed to be good sources, and are what I use on my mail.
I didn't have much success in the past with calling later development snapshots "release candidates". On the one hand, there are people who won't try even a release candidate because "it isn't a release"; on the other hand, there are people who will complain how disturbing it is that they encountered a bug in a release candidate.
I don't expect everybody to try every development snapshot. On the other hand, mix support has been in the development snapshot for months, and the timezone problem was in it since the beginning. This means that *nobody* in the eastern hemisphere tested mix in *any* development snapshot.
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