more betas / shorter windows?

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 2:22 PM Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

It takes, on average, about a week for us in Fedora to get everything
in and validated. I suspect other distributions are similar. Making it
too short risks making it too hard for us to keep up.




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