more betas / shorter windows?

[Nate Graham]

Yeah, it's long been a problem that bugs reported towards the end of a 
beta release were often fixed weeks ago, which wastes everyone's time. 
Shorter betas would also help our most effective volunteer QA people who 
close their bug reports once they're fixed by us (like Patrick Silva and 
some others) do so at a more rapid pace.

I'd support one-week betas, or if we think that's too aggressive and too 
much work for everyone, then two weeks.

Nate



On 12/18/23 10:42, Harald Sitter wrote:
> With the second p6 beta sneaking up on us I've been pondering the beta
> experience...
> 
> I can't help but think that the windows we've chosen were too long. At
> least from a crash tracking POV most of the crash reports we get from
> !neon are either of unreasonably low quality (because of improvements
> made to drkonqi in the meantime), or already fixed.
> 
> I'd like to propose that we push out more betas with shorter windows
> in the future.
> 
> 2 weeks maybe? 1 perhaps even if distros can cope? Or maybe something fibonacci?
> 
> Food for thought.
> 
> HS