Dear Mattias, Thank you for the hard work! This is a good approach. Starting to testing the beta before the feature freeze is good to incorporate more feedback from the users and developers.
Regards, Wondimagegn On Jul 8, 2017 11:13, "Matthias Kuhn" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Not too far away we will enter feature freeze for QGIS 3.0 and will be > trying to polish the next release as much as possible. > > During this time, a lot of testing will need to be done in order to be > able to best spend the bugfixing time. There are a handful of people who > regularly test nightlies and report bugs (thanks!). > > I wonder if it's possible to attract more testers for the next release > by providing a "beta". > > I think releasing a version labelled "beta" at the beginning of the > feature freeze (and another one half way through) will make more people > aware of the upcoming release. This can lead to additional important > testing from audience which otherwise would only "test" the final > release (with a lower acceptance of bugs). Besides that, I think it will > also be a good signal for devs to start porting plugin code and a very > good preparation for end users marketing-wise. > > It will be best served with a blog post explaining how critical the > bugfixing phase is for a release and how resources for this are allocated. > > It's just an idea I had in mind for some time. Does anyone dislike it? > > Thanks > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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