[TYPO3-dev] core beta version?

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hello,

Just forwarding this post that was wrongly sent to the core list. But I 
think the idea is quite interesting:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [TYPO3-core] core beta version?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:39 +0200
From: stefano cecere <scecere at krur.com>

hi everybody

i just upgraded most of my installations to 4.2.2 (i needed fast to fix 
the IRRE "can't delete childs" bug)
now i discover that there is a new bug (introduced by 4.2.2 - 
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=9524 ) that breaks decimal values in 
BE forms

i am wandering about: shouldn't a (maybe just few days) debug time be 
programmed for any core upgrade?
like creating a 4.2.2rc and tell everybody: please test it on this and 
that new bugfixes?

i can't follow the trunk core everyday and patch via svn
what do you think?


hug and good t3con everybody!!!

stefano
-------- [END] Original Message --------

I think that Stefano is quite right. I updated quite quickly my websites 
as the 4.2.2 release was stable and was said to contain only minor 
updates, bug fixes. We all know there was a few bugs introduced such as 
the mail() problem and the backend passwords. I'm not judging this 
release, not at all, but "real" tests are made once the new version is 
coming out, not before as it is easier for many people to download a 
tar.gz than using subversion on the branch.

Now, creating a rc1 and a week after the stable release means much work 
for packaging. Additionnaly this means that the release is not yet 
stable and many users may not upgrade and thus not test as it would 
benefit the community.

I would really like this two phase release. And you?


-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en