[Bf-committers] Avoiding regressions, changes to the release cycle.

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi,
We should communicate the Buildbot resource better (too many people 
still use graphicall with experimental patches blah for testing).
But if we are really strict with terms, then we are only in beta, 
starting with BCon3. I would consider BCon 1 and 2 as Alpha (many new 
features, lots of code cleanup..)

Suggestion:
At the beginning of BCon3 (major features are in, we work on final 
touches and fixes) we take the buildbot resource and communicate that on 
blender.org, blendernation etc, and ask the community to test the builds.
I don't think we need to provide special builds for a beta test, as long 
as people report bugs with our official builds, all is fine

Then at the beginning/middle of BCon4, we do an RC, and then only fix 
regressions, then release.

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 29.07.2013 14:06, schrieb Bastien Montagne:
> I would consider daily bot-built blender’s as “Beta”… After all, we
> never (intentionally) break /trunk, so those builds should always be
> usable, even though not strictly tested. Isn’t it the definition of
> “beta” release?
>
> Bastien

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