On 25 Oct 2011, at 20:24, Bernhard Pieber wrote: > May I humbly suggest to at least add a link to known open issues for 1.3 > right next to the release download? Then at least a newbie knows what to > expect.
It is a good idea to put known issues in the release notes. It would be a marketing mistake to do it like you suggest. > Thanks for all your effort! > > Cheers, > Bernhard > > Am 21.10.2011 um 15:24 schrieb Marcus Denker: >> On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote: >> On 21 October 2011 13:59, Schwab,Wilhelm K <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I am concerned about the error handling failure that I (easily) >>>> encountered, at least on Linux. Has anyone tried to reproduce it? >>> How does that prevent from releasing 1.3? >>> >>> If there are obscure bugs, they will be fixed in 1.4. >> >> Or even in 1.3... (just added 3 fixes today). >> >> The thing is that there are indefinit unknown problems. If we wait a week, >> for sure someone finds another. >> >> "Release" does not mean "Bug free", because "bug free" does not exist. >> (and it is even harder in a system with a huge, historical code base and an >> undefined feature set... I am >> always amazed to learn new features that people seem to not be able to life >> without that I did not even >> know existed. How can we gurantee that these don't break? We just can't). >> >> Marcus > >
