Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:27:03 -0400, /Rostyslaw Lewyckyj/:
MCBastos wrote:
First of all, I reject the premise that FF would be "churning half-baked
products". This is simply not true. In fact, it has been argued that the
new rapid-release schedule IMPROVES quality, since each release goes
through twelve weeks of testing (Aurora and Beta stages) with *no new
features added*, just debugging. In the old scheme, there was always the
temptation to add new features with the product close to release, since
the next release would be maybe a year away. And sometimes those new
features *were* half-baked.
So how many weeks of pure debugging and actual test suite testing did
SM 2.1 receive (in addition to testing by the FF and TB team testing?
[keeping in mind that SM has lots of code filched from FF & TB])
Also with 'an expected release maybe a year away' why were the new
features half-baked previously? A year is surely long enough to test.
And how about 2.2 ? And how about 2.3 ?
And how about repairing in 2.2 bugs discovered after release in 2.1?
And in 2.3 repairing bugs from 2.1 and/or 2.2?
(There have, I admit, promises to repair in 2.4 or later, some problems
introduced in 2.1 :-) )
"A year is surely long enough to test."
I don't think the SeaMonkey devs have ever had a full year for
testing a supposedly frozen product. Even with the previous Mozilla
release cycle, the longer time between releases meant more features
developed to the very end of the cycle, and then more stuff for the
SeaMonkey developers to catch up with. So no, I don't think and my
experience is, SeaMonkey has not been more stable having to release
in longer intervals. The shorter release cycle means less breaking
changes would appear with releases, the end users will be involved
much more in identifying problems with new changes, and these
problems could be addressed much faster, don't having to wait 1 or 2
years just to come up with the next major release.
--
Stanimir
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