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Re: More massive uploads in the week before stable release

In your email to me, Jim Pick, you wrote:
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> > In your email to me, Brian White, you wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So my question is - is the release just going to "happen", or is there
> > > > going to be a "release candidate" build made from frozen that will be
> > > > tested for last minute gotchas?
> > > 
> > > This is a good idea.  How about this...  When the last critical bug
> > > gets fixed, I'll announce a "release candidate" and let people try it.
> > 
> > I thought that's what the 'freeze' was... to get everyone to try it and
> > whittle down on the bugs. Or am *I* missing something?
> 
> As soon as we announce a "candidate release", a whole slew of people who
> didn't feel like debugging a "frozen, with bug fixes still to come" release
> will try it out -- thus unveiling a whole new bunch of bugs.  Hopefully,
> none of these are critical, and we'll be able to release it.
> 
> Standard software testing methodology, really...

True.. being a software developer with a heavy IE/Full Life Cycle
background, I'm aware of all the steps. However, according to the STM,
finding more than 'X' bugs (defined in your testing procedures), kicks
it right back to beta level again( frozen), and we start all over again.
I think for this release the spec for showstoppers has been set, and as
soon as we pass that, then it's a release.

Anyway, 'this ain't my job', so I'll defer to Brian "Mr. Release" White
to do the talking. I'll shut up now.

Tim

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