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.
>
>

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