It's interesting that people didn't start complaining about this until they realised there would be parallel development of 6.1.2. As Richard suggests a mechanism to be notified of all releases or not with the default being only final releases would work nicely. As things develop we may see more than two parallel release branches so it would be good to filter the notifications down for the masses.
-- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 17/09/2013, at 7:45 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 9/16/13 3:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Monte- >> >> Monday, September 16, 2013, 1:10:16 PM, you wrote: >> >>>> In the light of this I wonder about the wisdom of including >>>> 6.5.0 dp1 in the upgrade offers. >> >>> Why? >> >> Because when something appears as an update notice folks start >> thinking it's an actual upgrade and not a caveat-developer alpha build >> replete with a cautionary note that only appears in the list notice >> and not in the update mechanism. > > Exactly. My clients don't read anything, they just accept upgrades. I had to > warn them not to. In its current state, 6.5 is not appropriate for them to > use, and they aren't knowledgeable enough to know whether the problems > they'll have are my fault or the engine. They hardly know the difference. > > So I agree that very early releases shouldn't go out to everyone > indiscriminately. Rather than implement some sort of toggle switch, it might > be easier to just announce them on the lists and forums, where people will > have read the warnings before deciding what to do. Those who aren't involved > in the community won't know that there may be problems, and likely aren't the > best testers anyway. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
