From: C. <ro...@up...> - 2006-02-04 19:23:25
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I went against my gut feel to make RC (Release Candidate) releases before making a stable release. I regret that this wasn't the right choice but at least I can motivate now why we should use them. At the moment we will probably only end up making a stable release around 1.1.2 or 1.1.3 because we're still fixing bugs on the 1.1.0 branch. It would have been better if we made 1.1.0 RC1, 1.1.0 RC2, etc and then finally release and announce 1.1.0. This is why I think it is better: - We have a numbering scheme that tells developers, testers and users that they can start testing. - People will associate major releases will stability. - It makes a lot more sense to promote a major release in the media than announcing a minor bug fix release. Comments? --=20 Roch=C3=A9 Compaan Upfront Systems http://www.upfrontsystems.co.za |