Am 06/13/2013 10:20 AM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:06:49 +0200
Andre Fischer<awf....@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12.06.2013 21:32, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
On 12/06/2013 Rob Weir wrote:
Something to consider for AOO 4.1 is the value of a broad public beta
program to solicit early feedback on builds. This could be a good
complement to our formal QA efforts.
I totally agree that we should do so. In retrospective, it would have
been good to do it for 4.0 too: we've still received a lot of feedback
from the community, but the "hidden" development builds don't help if
people are just trying to get a glimpse of the coming features.
+1 for the beta.
The key thing
is to meet the formal requirements of an Apache release, but set user
expectations that it is a beta.
This is key, but we have several ways to do it, not necessarily
involving a huge disclaimer like the one you put on your e-mail!
But it's such a nice disclaimer.
-Andre
For example, we could make the beta versions available in "archive"
format only: just unzip it and test it, no installation. This will
give additional guarantees that people won't overwrite their stable
version and cannot mistake the beta for a full version. Of course,
this doesn't test system integration, but it could be an acceptable
trade-off.
Regards,
Andrea.
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A big, brief, very blunt disclaimer
"Beta Software, not to be used for critical work"
then a longer, more legal explanation might be the approach to take.
Sounds good, like:
"Beta Software, not to be used for critical work" <click for details>
bla bla bla <click to minimize>
So, you can click on the link to display the full text disclaimer. And -
if needed - click again to minimize it back to the sentence.
Marcus
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