Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Alphas in Lubntu

2012-11-01 Thread Julien Lavergne
Le 31/10/2012 20:39, Lars Noodén a écrit : It also provides a deadline to meet as the product matures towards release. Well, it doesn't stop us to do milestones, and tick a specific daily as "Good to use as an Alpha, but it's not a real Alpha". Alpha release is IMO a heavy process for the benef

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Alphas in Lubntu

2012-10-31 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Lars, /start of party political broadcast on behalf of the Cadence party. The request to change to cadence testing came from the dev / release team. The current Alpha release system has a fundamental flaw. Once frozen, only critical bug updates can trigger a respin. Other bugs are held back un

[Lubuntu-qa] Alphas in Lubntu

2012-10-31 Thread Lars Noodén
My vote would be to keep the alphas. On one level it is useful to have a milestone to provide a sense of progress and accomplishment. More practically, it provides a milestone where we are likely to be able to invite in additional more casual testers. Alpha has a little more weight to it to an ou