pre-releases?

[zany]

I was thinking wouldn't it be possible to make a pre-release available to everyone before the actual release so at least some people can test it before it is announced?

[aubergine]

Uhm, doesn't buildbot do that already - there are nightly releases that people can check IIRC (can't remember where though).

[Berg]

isn't a beta a pre release before we get a stable?

[Emdek]

Maybe this?
http://buildbot.wz2100.net/builders/master-nightly

[zany]

none of those versions work with the version they release

[zany]

isn't a beta a pre release before we get a stable?

I mean like getting beta 5 before it was out to all

[Emdek]

Like beta5 alpha1?
We need to go deeper!

[zany]

Like beta5 alpha1?
We need to go deeper!

no, just release beta 5 to a group of people and they can test and report back if any game breaking things are in it

[aubergine]

Having done some digging in to the version history of WZ recently, it's quite rare that you get two betas released within a day of each other. So I think we just chalk 3.1 beta 5 up to experience and ignore this little blip on the radar.

BTW, is it me or is interest and participation in WZ really hotting up recently?

[Emdek]

zany, I know what you mean, but personally I think that simply releasing more often is better.
Just people should know that this beta stuff, we must kill 2.3.x ASAP too...

[aubergine]

Like beta5 alpha1?
We need to go deeper!

no, just release beta 5 to a group of people and they can test and report back if any game breaking things are in it

That's exactly what happened - Beta 5 was released, a bunch of people downloaded it, found and reported problems, the devs fixed the problems and released beta 6

[Berg]

Like beta5 alpha1?
We need to go deeper!

no, just release beta 5 to a group of people and they can test and report back if any game breaking things are in it

That's exactly what happened - Beta 5 was released, a bunch of people downloaded it, found and reported problems, the devs fixed the problems and released beta 6

BINGO

[zany]

Like beta5 alpha1?
We need to go deeper!

no, just release beta 5 to a group of people and they can test and report back if any game breaking things are in it

That's exactly what happened - Beta 5 was released, a bunch of people downloaded it, found and reported problems, the devs fixed the problems and released beta 6

yes but as you can see in that thread there are cry babies who complain about that

[aubergine]

meh...

[Emdek]

The best solution would to but warning: "this is beta stuff, it can eat your cat, but we would appreciate feedback anyway".