On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Frode Nordahl wrote:
Yes, but I am not aware of any form of announcement of them being there. Just having an archive sitting on an FTP server will not prompt broad testing from the user base.
The development snapshots have been advertised for the past 18 years; years longer than there was ever such a thing as a "release" version.
It is not practical to announce development snapshots. Sometimes, there are multiple snapshots in a single day. I'd be spending all my time preparing announcements instead of writing code.
I can't be expected to decide if a snapshot is "significant" enough to warrant an announcement either. The change may not be significant to you, but it probably is significant to someone.
I depend upon the user community for regression testing, particularly for environments that are substantially different from mine (among other things, this means anything other than RHE Linux, Mac OS 10.4.7, and Windows XP SP2).
Basically, I need all of you to obtain and test the current development snapshot in your environment on a periodic basis. The precise period is up to you, but it ought to be more frequent than "each release".
We are all busy people. I don't expect everybody to test every snapshot, especially when multiple snapshots come out in a day. However, if everybody always assumes that Mr. Someone Else will take care of it, then it ends up that nobody takes care of it.
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