I'm on the beta team and I appreciate the gradual roll out as there are new releases just about daily to catch things.
On Friday, November 27, 2015 at 5:42:15 PM UTC-6, chrisleeuk wrote: > > The Google playstore has a feature called staged roll outs that allows the > developers to make the newer version available to a percentage of users. > > Actually it is very common for developers to do this even for smaller > changes and bug fixes. > > Even after significant beta testing it is impossible to be 100% sure on > all devices and configurations that everything will run as planned. > > This is especially true for apps with millions of users. It is much safer > to release to several thousand users, confirm everything is working well > and then increase the percentages. This can prevent developers getting > swamped with support requests and upset customers. > > Caution on big release is generally not a bad thing. MLO is at the 10,000 > user range, but the MLO team is small so they are probably just taking care > to make sure they are not overloaded with issues. > > The big down side of this approach is that if customers are waiting on a > long anticipated release they start to get upset when they see others are > already upgrading and they are not. > > Let's hope the roll out period is short as we have been waiting a long > time for this release. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/8ec7b36c-9c58-44af-bc2c-4ea58216b6f1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
