On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Rick Spencer <rick.spen...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > At UDS I had some "hallway discussions" about why we freeze for Alphas > and Betas, and the fact that I think it is time to drop this practice > and rather focus on making Ubuntu good quality each day. Sadly, there > was no session on this, thus this email to this list for discussion.
+1 in general. One thing that occurs to me, is that I don't know what the Alpha and Betas are *for* for us.... I mean: in a traditional software product alpha releases would be used to guage customer reaction to new features and changes, betas are used to assess real-world defect rates (and once they drop low enough, general release can happen). We have landed substantial changes post-alpha-milestone in the past, and we probably will continue to do so (e.g. Gnome releases, Unity etc): so I'm not sure, *other* than defect rates, what Alpha does for us. I'm a huge fan of keeping trunk stable and release-quality always, which makes the beta process still useful, but one that doesn't need fixed beta releases, just get folk tracking trunk and reporting back. -Rob -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
