[Owncloud] ownCloud release

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 26.09.2011, at 00:26, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:

> In the beta there is an issue making it impossible to add new users. This
> made me think about – why do we fix the zip package if one day later many
> issues in there are fixed. People will have problems and bring up the same
> issues repeatedly, which is nonsense from both users and developers point
> of view. If you check out our Twitter or Shapado (or mailing list, which
> should please not be used for bugs :) → http://owncloud.shapado.com –
> you’ll see what I mean.

Sure. I suggest to do a beta 2 today to fix this.


> Since Gitorious also offers a compressed archive download, why don’t we
> just leave that? We can still formally have it labeled "ownCloud 2 beta"
> (for people who like clear labels like that) but in reality it will update
> with the latest fixes. Basically, a rolling release underneath but a fixed
> release on top.

Thats an interesting idea. But I´m not sure this works. The purpose of beta releases
is to give testers an defined state which they can test. Testing a moving target is a testing nightmare.

> 
> And in any case – as we already did with the removal of the ".0" numbering
> structure – we should not append extra numbers to releases. It’s just the
> beta, not a beta 1. A beta phase can go long, and as it’s updated
> constantly it doesn’t matter either way. It’s just more confusing.
> 
> Sorry for the slightly ranty post but

No problem. :-)
New ideas are always good. :-)

> – since it’s web software which is
> constantly downloaded – I propose we establish a new workflow of keeping
> the master always as stable as possible and tested (as we do right now
> already) and only commit fixes there. Every feature or addition is
> developed in a branch which needs to be tested and cross-reviewed before
> it’s merged.

Sure. But they is still the need to test the complete software package before release

> 
> Something which doesn’t exist is better than something which is
> implemented only half.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, September 25, 2011 01:23, Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> Hi everybody.
>> 
>> I just released ownCloud 2 beta 1
>> I think this is a great release. Thanks to everybody who contributed!
>> 
>> The plan is to release the final next friday if we don´t have major
>> showstoppers.
>> We should concentrate on bugfixing and listening to user feedback to make
>> this release really cool.
>> 
>> We also have to write a release announcement which includes information
>> about all the old and new features of this release. I´m not the best
>> writer so if would be cool to get some help here. :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Frank
>> 
>> 
>> Frank Karlitschek
>> karlitschek at kde.org
>> 
>> 
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Frank Karlitschek
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