Re: Bugs in 0.96 (was Re: 0.96(pre-9) crashes on Windows when insereting a line before ...)

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Lars Clausen wrote:

> > > Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with the prereleases.
> > Me too ;-) May I suggest to at least slowdown (preview|bugfix) releases
> > enough that there is some more time to find, report and fix bugs?
>
> You mean three months isn't enough?  Either we're just unlucky, or 
> there's just too few people trying the pres to get out to enough 
> corners.

IMHO, there were too many pre-releses, sometimes with an intervall in 
between that was too short. This discouraged me as a tester - the time was 
so short beween releases that I didn't feel I had the time to upgrade to 
the latest release.

OTOH, I'm perhaps not a regular tester - I occasionally use Dia for work 
and when I encounter a problem I try to report it. So in my case I need to 
use something that's reasonably stable.

> I'm not worried about putting out too many releases, it's the time spent 
> between them that seems silly.  Steffen and I have releasing down to a 
> fairly fast process by now, and with the web pages on a wiki, those can 
> get updated much faster too.  So I'd prefer to have the prereleases be a 
> sanity check and just deal more with having post-releases while we 
> develop the next cool thing.

I'm not sure I understand you. Do you do the development in two branches, 
a development branch and a stable branch? (So that if for instance a 
bug is discovered, it can be fixed in the development branch, backport 
the fix to the stable branch and eventually do a semi-release?)

cheers
/Christian

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