Hi! > So why most respected and established projects follow this route? > Now QGIS is used very widely in professional contexts, and releasing > supposedly > stable packages with nasty regressions (as it is happening) brings no good to > our > users and reputation. > I think our QA approach should improve, one way or another. > All the best. Yes - the QA should improve.. Thats a fact I am definitely with you.. Regarding "our" problem: I am using Linux since a very long time - and did never use a rc-kernel.. and I also don't know anyone using a rc-kernel .. With the user base of linux-kernel and qgis in mind I only doubt that rc-releases will bring the effect for qgis we would like it to have (of course maybe I am wrong and a lot of QGIS users out there want to use a RC). So from my point of view pushing rc releases will only have the impact of more work with (my personal opinion) less effect. But I think this has to be discussed separately elsewhere.
I am quite happy with the release cycle we have ... And I am sure with every version of 1.7.x it will get more and more stable (with a big userbase for telling us that something is going wrong). But again - I have not tested it and probably I am wrong - maybe it's worth a try.. but from my experiences with the kernel itself our possible rc will have a small userbase with the effect of - well - having nearly no effect on the so called "stable" release - which itself will still include bugs.. just my 2¢ regards Werner _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
