On 26.09.2011, at 00:26, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > In the beta there is an issue making it impossible to add new users. This > made me think about – why do we fix the zip package if one day later many > issues in there are fixed. People will have problems and bring up the same > issues repeatedly, which is nonsense from both users and developers point > of view. If you check out our Twitter or Shapado (or mailing list, which > should please not be used for bugs :) → http://owncloud.shapado.com – > you’ll see what I mean.
Sure. I suggest to do a beta 2 today to fix this. > Since Gitorious also offers a compressed archive download, why don’t we > just leave that? We can still formally have it labeled "ownCloud 2 beta" > (for people who like clear labels like that) but in reality it will update > with the latest fixes. Basically, a rolling release underneath but a fixed > release on top. Thats an interesting idea. But I´m not sure this works. The purpose of beta releases is to give testers an defined state which they can test. Testing a moving target is a testing nightmare. > > And in any case – as we already did with the removal of the ".0" numbering > structure – we should not append extra numbers to releases. It’s just the > beta, not a beta 1. A beta phase can go long, and as it’s updated > constantly it doesn’t matter either way. It’s just more confusing. > > Sorry for the slightly ranty post but No problem. :-) New ideas are always good. :-) > – since it’s web software which is > constantly downloaded – I propose we establish a new workflow of keeping > the master always as stable as possible and tested (as we do right now > already) and only commit fixes there. Every feature or addition is > developed in a branch which needs to be tested and cross-reviewed before > it’s merged. Sure. But they is still the need to test the complete software package before release > > Something which doesn’t exist is better than something which is > implemented only half. > > > > On Sun, September 25, 2011 01:23, Frank Karlitschek wrote: >> Hi everybody. >> >> I just released ownCloud 2 beta 1 >> I think this is a great release. Thanks to everybody who contributed! >> >> The plan is to release the final next friday if we don´t have major >> showstoppers. >> We should concentrate on bugfixing and listening to user feedback to make >> this release really cool. >> >> We also have to write a release announcement which includes information >> about all the old and new features of this release. I´m not the best >> writer so if would be cool to get some help here. :-) >> >> >> Cheers >> Frank >> >> >> Frank Karlitschek >> [email protected] >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Owncloud mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
