[wp-hackers] Differentiating nightlies and betas

[Dave Cohen]

Why don't we come up with a system, where we have official testers.  I
would say that people submit their criteria to become an official
tester, then have a designated group that goes through each person's
criteria to determine whether or not they should have access to
nightly builds.  I think people would eat this up, the ability to be
dubbed an official Wordpress tester would be pretty cool to many
people.

Also, we could do weekly public builds that would be available to the
general public, so say on Sunday have a cron job run that copies that
days nightly into a public folder available for general use.  This
would also allow for the official testers to be more of a first
responder for the forums.  The official testers would have already
seen the changes and be prepared to help out.

I know this all amounts to more work for everyone initially, but I
think a system like this or similar would be the best of both worlds.

Just my .02


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:33:55 -0600, Ryan Boren <ryan at boren.nu> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 19:26 -0700, Chris Coggburn wrote:
> >Robert Deaton wrote:
> >
> >>Maybe there should be a test before people can download nightlies. If
> >>you can't code yourself out of a wet paper bag, then you shouldn't be
> >>touching them. This way, we keep a lot of the people who would be
> >>asking relentessly on the forums from having access to the new
> >>releases.
> >>
> >>Of course, that'd probably not work too well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I personally like the idea, but I doubt others will go for it. Plus
> >there would be widespread cheating via stealing of teacher's notes,
> >cellphones, and writing of code on shoes.
> 
> We should be lowering the bar for contribution, not raising it.
> 
> Those people relentlessly asking questions are actually providing a
> service.  Repeatedly reported bugs offer an indication that something
> may need to be re-thought and re-designed.  Designs were changed a
> number of times in 1.5 in response to relentless questions from those
> who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag.  They are our users,
> and their input is valuable.
> 
> This entire thread is addressing symptoms, not causes.  Better release
> engineering and shorter schedules will do more to remedy the problem
> than will inconveniencing and patronizing those who are doing us the
> favor of using the nightlies and providing feedback.  Let's talk about
> scheduling and ways to release more often with less bugs.  Attempts to
> discuss 1.5. maintenance have created no comments, whereas this thread
> is still going strong.  Curious.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
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Best Regards,
Dave Cohen