[wp-hackers] Differentiating nightlies and betas

Jeremiah Zabal miahzmiahz at gmail.com
Tue Feb 22 05:00:09 GMT 2005


How about:
To download nightlies, you have to join the (wp-nightlies?) list. 
When you join, you get sent the FTP password.  And you're already
subscribed to the support network.


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:46:50 -0500, Dave Cohen <cohen.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> --
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> Dave Cohen
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