Hi, On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Pedro wrote: > Tom wrote: >> >> If you want greater stability then the official releases are better.
Missed... ;) >> I think the daily builds are pre-release and only really for testing >> purposes? I agree about fundamentally broken ones being removed but isn't >> it part of the process? ie you find how something is broken and then >> someone finds a way to fix it? Without the build it might not be clear >> that there is a breakage or what has caused it. >> > > Yes, daily builds are meant for testing purposes. > > If there was a scenario in which it would work for some people but not for > others then it would be worth leaving them online in order to narrow down > what circumstances prevented it from working on some PCs but not on others. > > But since these builds are not working AT ALL and this is known, I believe > it is better to pull them off. There is no point in additional people > downloading them to find out that they are broken :) I agree with you. It is a lot of work to test/verify the bugfixes, enhancements and new features; to write bug reports, and to test again... So downloading, installing and testing completely malfunctioning master builds--again and again--will demotivate QA contributors. The last acceptable master build (for me) on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/Windows_XP_SP3/master/ has been the version 2011-09-12_16.09.34/ (and before: the now removed version 2011-09-06_02.34.59). Please take into account (as far as I remeber): (1) The master builds 2011-09-09_19.24.47/ 2011-09-10_23.04.28/ 2011-09-13_20.44.55/ are nearly unusable due to Bug 40902 - FILEOPEN CRASH with trivial lorem ipsum text document https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40902 (partially also FILESAFE CRASH). (2) The master builds 2011-09-22_20.23.05/ 2011-09-24_00.41.37/ fail to start any LibO application. (3) The failing master builds on http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/Voreppe_Win32_Tinderbox/ are now removed. mjk -- Mu http://xkcd.com/815/ -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
