[Owncloud] 4.5 beta 1

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 29.08.2012, at 10:31, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:

> 
> Am Mittwoch, dem 29.08.2012 um 19:12 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>> On 29.08.2012, at 08:52, Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am Mittwoch, dem 29.08.2012 um 17:44 schrieb Frank Karlitschek:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> We are getting closer.
>>>> I just uploaded beta 1
>>>> owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
>>>> Feature freeze is now in effect so please only commit bugfixes from now on. New features should go into branches.
>>>> 
>>>> Please give it a hard test.
>>> 
>>> As we have failing testcases on git master it was not the best time to tag beta1.
>>> 
>>> :-/
>> 
>> I guess that´s the difference between a beta and a final ;-)
> 
> Well - I would agree if we are talking about some GUI glitch what so ever.
> 
> But the breaking file cache is a regression which appeared yesterday and nobody up to 
> now judged how critical this one is.
> 
> I cannot judge myself on this as I have neither the time nor any conceptual idea on 
> what this file_cache is about.
> 
> Frank, in the worst case you have to send beta2 tomorrow as soon as one of the devs 
> tonight on irc will have a look and say: Holy shit - what have I done!

Sure.
That´s absolutely possible.

> 
> Any tester on the community will need to rerun their testing within a short 
> period of time and get for sure mad because it was a simple waste of time - waste of 
> free time which could have been spent better with a good book, friends, family, sleep ......
> 
> It's a matter of profession from my point of view.
> 
>> Thanks a lot for doing the tests by the way
>> 
> 
> No problem - but it would be good to get some more support from the 
> developers/community in terms of monitoring the builds and see, what is broken.
> 
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Tom aka DeepDiver
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> See my mail as of today in the morning:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> we have 3 new failing test cases since yesterday in the area of file cache:
>>> http://ci.tmit.eu/job/ownCloud-Server%28master%29/713/testReport/
>>> 
>>> Someone feeling guilty ;-)
>>> Any volunteer to take a look?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> 
>>> Tom aka DeepDiver
>>> 
>>>> More information about testing is here on our page:
>>>> owncloud.org/dev/testing
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to everybody :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Frank
>>>> 
>>>> On 21.08.2012, at 10:45, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have build the 4.5 alpha 1 tar file:
>>>>> http://owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.0-alpha1.tar.bz2
>>>>> 
>>>>> It is important to note that this is only a development snapshot. Full feature freeze is scheduled for next monday. I suggest to merge your features as soon as possible because we move to github next weekend which can cause some downtime.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now that ownCloud is approaching a major release, a formal testing process is 
>>>>> being organized. We are looking for any users that would like to participate 
>>>>> in the next release and improve the quality of ownCloud. No programming 
>>>>> experience is necessary. If you would like to get involved visit: 
>>>>> http://owncloud.org/dev/testing
>>>>> 
>>>>> The quality of ownCloud is not only the responsibility of the developers, but 
>>>>> the entire community.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Frank
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
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