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Hi everybody,
I decided to go with a special sub-forum for the release of app 2 version because I feel that there will be more talk that just bug report for app 2. So here's a full session for that.
ALPHA 1 advice :
- I will post later this day a huge topic about how alpha was done. It explains a lot of stuff inside. The consequence is that you won't need to post bug report of many area of the software but only some part.
- the only relevant area of bug report are :
* everything related to detection
* everything related to settings ( exception : optimization setting, rendering setting )
* cache
* new features ( motorized panorama head support, stacks, flash export, etc )
Bug report topic title should be "[version] issue", for example "[190 Alpha 1] canon 40D raw detection".
Yes, alpha 1 is named "190 alpha 1". We'll use this naming 191 alpha 2, 192 alpha 3, 194 beta 1, etc. It won't say that there will 10 releases before final !
- if you want to discuss about the design of some feature for example plugin. Use such convention for the name of the topic about a feature design ( it's not a bug report, ok, it's about the design ). "[ design ] feature ", for example : "[ design ] Motorized panorama head support"
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Thanks... Will we see the alpha posted today?
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A bit offtopic, but could you explain the alpha/beta naming scheme? Seems complicated. Why not just use "pre1", "pre2", etc? This way you can have unlimited numbers of prereleases and not confuse people with alphas, betas, RCs...
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Yes, you are right [bo].
Here's the explanation :
* ALPHA means "work in progress". Features are being added but not all features are present yet
* BETA means "debug in progress". Every feature have being done, but not debugged
* RC means "release candidate". When reaching some stage of stability, we release RC's until nothing serious bug is found anymore.
* RELEASE : final one, the goal !
We have planned 3 ALPHAs, first one today.
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