[TYPO3-dev] core beta version?

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi,

I am with Masi. "Nightly snapshots" of all branches we are maintaining
(4.1, 4.2 and trunk) would be a cool add-on where people could
experiment the cutting edge "bug fixed version" without the problem of
having to work with SVN.

So the announcement of Ingo in Core-list ("should we release 4.2.x
now?") would be sufficient for everybody to test the "latest snapshot"
and see if it works.

Cheers,
Ernesto

Xavier Perseguers wrote: on 10.10.2008 11:43:
> 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?
> 
>