________________________________________ From: Justin Mclean [jus...@classsoftware.com] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 5:30 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Discuss Release Apache Flex SDK Installer 3.1 - RC3
Hi, >>> 2) A slower release candidate cycle would help, IMO you'll get more >>> reviews, more testing and less release candidates overall. >> Fewer releases per year doesn't sound helpful to the community. >release candidate != release I'm talking about how often RCs are produced in a >single release cycle. I could wait longer, but I thought we'd learned during your RM days that as soon as folks start posting potentially blocking issues that other folks tend to stop looking. >> Forcing serialized voting for our releases also doesn't sound helpful to >> the community. >They don't need to be serial - they need to be independent of each other if at >all possible. I am hopeful that once we get a few more bugs out of the installer that there will be more independence between releases. >> I thought we weren't supposed to advertise development builds on users@ >A release candidate is not a development build, we should be encouraging user >to test RCs as we find issues before we release + it helps with community >building. We have done this in the past. Check out this link. I think it disagrees. http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201405.mbox/%3cCAAS6=7iGt0xW4oBe0sSXC7RzGgDP=kubhgkojzuezbbirq2...@mail.gmail.com%3e -Alex
