more betas / shorter windows?

[Harald Sitter]

6.x onwards

On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 6:59 PM Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 12/18/23 18:42, 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
> By "in the future" you mean for the 6.0 release or the 6.x releases? In
> the past we only had one beta release for the 5.x releases, but I guess
> having more than one again could be up for debate