On Wednesday 15 October 2008 07:04:56 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >It turned out that people misunderstand our beta and release candidate > >announcements. So I know from cases where people switched with their > >Ph.D. thesis from the stable LyX 1.5.6 to LyX 1.6.0RC3 an now suffer > >from our regression bugs and crashes.
Have those regressions resulted in data losses? I don't think we should use capital letters in our announces. I don't mind if the announce is reworked to add a cautious note, but if we are too cautious in the announce people will not test the pre-releases and then we have the x.y.0 syndrome. On the other as it usually happens people do not read the announces so this point may be moot. :-) > IMO, moving your thesis onto a new release is the only way of giving > programs the real testing kick. If you "just test" it, you might never > trip bugs hidden in dark corners. Only if you *really edit* (consider > that the superlative of "to test") your thesis like you normally do, > these bugs be uncovered. Of course, keeping regular snapshots of your > .lyx file is highly advised — even mandatory I would claim — in such > situations... just in case a cookie monster bug that eats everything > appears. Or if your disk fails, it would not be the first time this happens. :-) Especially in a thesis and to add further in the last days of submission. -- José Abílio
