On 7/5/13 9:49 AM, Edwin Sharp wrote: > Well, I guess working with bugs has a psychological side effect. > There are times I lose faith in the software. > In a few occasions even considered stop using it. > Bottom line, July 16th is just around the corner and I'm anxious.
sure if you focus on finding problems you will find a lot of them and we have a huge backlog of issues. Probably many of them are not longer valid but it requires time to check and clean up them. Software of this size will probably always have issues and I would say it is the same for other proprietary software where the process is not so transparent. I would be happy if we had more volunteers who are able to fix issues and if we could fix more issues for every release. But we have to take into account the reality. I really don't see very serious showstoppers yet. Yes there still some issues that can cause a crash but where a fix is not easy possible and the scenario is seldom used. Sure users of this functionality will be annoyed and I can understand it. But on the other hand we make millions of users happy with a new release and they will not even notice these still existing problems because for their daily work it is not important. It's good that you put your own quality standard so high and that you help us to reach an even higher standard in general. But this takes time and we are working on it. As Andrea mentioned we will change our strategy and will work with a public beta in the future. But not for 4.0. As the acting release manager I don't plan to postpone the release because the situation will not change. We will run in vacation time and less activity over the next weeks. Regards Juergen > > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013, at 0:16, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >> This is quite understandable and in the past I've been in a couple of >> occasions a quite vocal supporter of the "not ready yet" party. But I >> think that QA on the 4.0 snapshot is going rather well, and probably it >> will be enough to produce a new release candidate before the final >> release. There will always be bugs, but we have to draw a line and our >> latest release dates back to August 2012. >> >> It is already planned that for 4.1 we will have a public beta release; >> for 4.0 we had some policy problems and concerns about giving too much >> visibility to unstable versions, but this will be addressed for 4.1. An >> important thing to do is to discuss rejected release blockers just after >> 4.0 is released, so that there is plenty of time to fix them by 4.1. >> >> Regards, >> Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
