On Saturday 12 Nov 2005 16:05, Silvan wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 09:27 am, Chris Cannam wrote: > > That's completely the opposite of how I'd have characterised the > > situation. We've been finding bugs faster than we can fix them. > > Surely the only reason we haven't done a release during the last > > couple of weeks is that we've had too many known outstanding bugs? > > This goes back months though.
Yeah, in the longer term you're quite right. I was just making the point that a moment when we're actually working quite hard at finding and fixing bugs is perhaps not the best time to make a release. > C: we get caught up in other stuff for days/weeks > D: G asks if we can release yet, because nobody has reported a bug > for days/weeks > [...] > More testing would mean less time wasted in C and D. You could argue that if Guillaume would have enough time to make a release and release it and then to fix all those additional bugs reported in the segment canvas, he should have enough time to test the damn thing himself. (I'll say that just to be snide, but I won't argue it seriously because I know it would be defying human nature. We never test the things we write ourselves enough.) > We've never had a real RC process before. We do all the shaking out > before the RC, and the RC is a mere token. That's what a release candidate is supposed to be. It's a release that you believe you could make into the final release just by renaming the .tar.gz file. But yeah, I was certainly disappointed by how few people reported anything at all on the 1.0 RCs. Maybe they just weren't out there long enough. (Or maybe it is all just too difficult to test, but we know that.) > a) we don't spend > long enough in the RC process for it to do any good, and b) most > users don't ever build source Ah -- yes. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list Rosegarden-devel@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
