[Owncloud] ownCloud 4.5.3

[Felip Moll]

I agree with you that you have to release versions for bugfixes, but maybe
you can release only patches and no new versions, or explicitly say that X
release is a bugfix release.  I know patches are already released and
people sometimes doesn't know how to apply them and makes new bug reports
while they are currently solved, so better to release new versions.

It is complicated.

Also to see notices like this:
*Latest News*: ownCloud *4.5.3* New major release with exciting new
features just released! View the
announcement<https://owncloud.com/blog/owncloud45-community>,
changelog <http://owncloud.org/changelog> and
download<http://mirrors.owncloud.org/releases/owncloud-4.5.3.tar.bz2>it
now!

while 4.5.3 is only a bugfix release with no "exciting new features", tends
to confuse people.

By the other hand:
4.5.3 - 27th Nov
4.5.2 - 14th Nov
4.5.1 - 24th Oct
4.5.0 - 10th Oct

Every 2 weeks, new release. How time does an administrator to implement a
new sevice, correct some bugs, adapt to the business and release it?


Take all my thoughts as positive, not to create a flame ;)


2012/11/27 Thomas Müller <thomas.mueller at tmit.eu>

> Hi Felip,
>
> there is always a trade-off between waiting for bugs to be fixed vs. bug
> fix to be released.
>
> If we will wait until all bugs are fixed we will never release anything.
> On the other hand we had bugs in 4.5.2 which have been fixed pretty fast
> and people have
> been reporting the same issue multiple times.
>
> No matter which way you choose:
> I'll be too fast of the one and too slow for the other. ;-)
>
> Thanks and take care,
>
> Tom
>
> Am Dienstag, dem 27.11.2012 um 14:06 schrieb Felip Moll:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I am happy to see that you are doing such an effort to code all so
> quickly
> > and improving OwnCloud so much.
> >
> > Please, permit me to explain my opinion...
> >
> > The fact is that I think that newer releases shouldn't be released so
> fast.
> > IMHO there are a lot of critical bugs, like the ones reported about
> quotas,
> > or others with the interface, that should be corrected first before
> > releasing a new version.
> >
> > Doing this way makes people to feel like Owncloud is not stable and
> > unsuitable for enterprise or production servers.. it is my feeling.
> >
> > I would prefer you to focus more on solving the bugs than adding new
> > features, or at least to not release new versions "selling" it like
> release
> > versions while there are so many bugs.
> >
> > It is only my point of view, maybe I misunderstood your release policy,
> and
> > please, keep doing this work because it can become a real alternative to
> > things such dropbox.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Felip Moll
> >
> > 2012/11/27 Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org>
> >
> > > Hi everybody,
> > >
> > > we just releases 4.5.3
> > > http://owncloud.org
> > >
> > > Together with the Desktop Client 1.1.2 from yesterday we fixed a lot of
> > > critical bugs.
> > > http://owncloud.org/changelog/
> > >
> > > Thanks to everybody who contributed. I´m so happy that we have such a
> > > great and active community.
> > >
> > >
> > > Frank
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
>
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