Am 28.04.2014 23:58, schrieb Vincent van Ravesteijn:
Op 28 apr. 2014 23:17 schreef "Uwe >And that is what the RC-phase is about
in my opinion: the program is feature-frozen and string frozen. Users get
some weeks to test thoroughly and we fix as many bugs as possible.
You completely misunderstood. Bèta releases are for testing. RC are release
candidates. Bèta releases should be feature frozen, RCs should be frozen
except for major issues. I really do not know where you got another
impression from.
We had a lot of string changes during the beta phase and the last feature of algorithm2e was added
in January.
However, with an RC you attract more users to test a release than with a beta because people have
the feeling to test an almost ready product. Therefore an RC2 makes sense. Take for example
LibreOffice - many of the bugs are reported against RCs and they usually never release with only one
RC. In the past we also had a longer RC-phase. This might sound unpleasant but this way we can get
more feedback. Now we have e.g. again the case that we have lyx2lyx issues. 2 are uncovered by a bug
report after the freeze. Georg is doing a great job of fixing them right now but I think you can
understand that I wanted to have them fixed before LyX 2.1.0 final.
But OK, LyX is now out and from the time of the release we found (thanks to your daughter ;-) ) a
good date. Easter holidays are over, today many people returned to work or the university.
I already prepared some mails to press people but some already wrote about LyX
- perfect!
regards Uwe
