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#4890: Beta test for longer than 1 month
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Written by derick.eisenhardt the 17 Mar 08 at 07:15.
Category: Others.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
One month is simply not long enough for the beta phase of Ubuntu's development cycle. With each new release Ubuntu seems to be accumulating more and more bugs. Even worse are the tons of regressions slipping through until after the final release, sometimes not getting fixed at all. More focus needs to be put on testing and stability (including universe/multiverse too).
Most users are terrified at the idea of running an alpha, so almost no one but developers and hardcore/bleeding-edge types are doing any real testing 5 out of the 6 months that each release is developed. I'd love to see 3 months of development (alpha) followed by 3 months of testing (beta+rc), but that's probably not realistic. So I propose 1 month of beta, followed by 1 month of release candidates; thus giving us 2 months of testing rather than one. The devs and other folks in charge can make the real decision of exactly how long, but 1 month (3 weeks of beta + 1 week rc) just isn't cutting it guys.
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derick.eisenhardt wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 07:54
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Alternately, if cutting the alpha/development phase from 5 months to 4 is just too much, 4 weeks of beta followed by 2 weeks of release candidates (6 weeks total for testing) would be better than nothing...
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Auzy wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 08:42
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Isn't this kind of addressed by the LTS builds?
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derick.eisenhardt wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 16:33
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How exactly does LTS fix anything I just mentioned? LOL... it's got the same 3 week beta, then 1 week release candidate system as all the other releases. The issue here is that not enough testing time occurs in each release therefore many bugs are slipping through the cracks at the initial release date.
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XSP wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 19:06
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In a constantly evolving system, it's impossible to iron out everything. Many people with different hardware configurations will not ever so much as touch an Alpha, Beta, or RC, it really won't help that much to increase the testing times as there will be problems no matter what. Honestly, the real testing period begins with an actual release, the next couple of months are divided up on the new Alpha and fixing problems with the current release.
Sure, it's not the best system in the world, but when you're working on an almost non-existent budget, you can only rely on those willing to test for you.
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fragro wrote on the 17 Mar 08 at 19:38
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For an LTS the whole development cycle is not so experimental like for other Versions, especially Gutsy. I have used all development versions since Dapper (before them i used Gentoo) and no one was so early quite stable than hardy.
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lsdark wrote on the 29 Mar 08 at 10:48
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mmhh smells like a troll
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