Ton, we decided to abandon the beta-cycle because we found it was not effective - we never got any defect reports from the beta, the reports came in only once we had released the new version.
The rational for publishing it as the official production download is that we are sufficiently confident in the testing and test suite that new users are unlikely to have problems. Problems normally occur with plugins, so we only announce the new release on the Dev group, and only recommend developers to upgrade. Once we have had feedback from this process we announce the release on the main TiddlyWiki group. So, while I agree the process is a bit unconventional, there is a logic behind it. The beta release cycle wasn't working, so we had to change something. Martin On 7 October 2011 18:02, Ton van Rooijen <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > > What have I missed? > You released a new version, without a previous beta-cycle. > You called it tentative, meant for developers. > At the same time it is published on the official "production" > downloadsite, without any warning. > Sorry, but with all respect, can you see why I don't understand this > move? > > Best regards, > Ton van Rooijen > > > On 6 okt, 17:56, Martin Budden <[email protected]> wrote: >> Of course the first line of this message should read: "I've made a new >> 2.6.5 release..." >> >> Sorry for the confusion. >> >> Martin >> >> On 6 October 2011 16:42, Martin Budden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I've made a new 2.6.4 release. This is a tentative release, in the >> > sense that I think it should be exercised a bit by people who are >> > development users of TW (hence its announcement in this group), before >> > we announce it to the general community. >> >> > So feel free to upgrade to this if you wish to do what is in effect >> > beta testing, but I would not upgrade for general use until we have >> > had some more feedback. >> >> > The main changes relative to 2.6.4 are better error messages and some >> > minor improvements to better support TiddlySpace. >> >> > Martin >> >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group >> > athttp://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWikiDev" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
