Suspecting beta release very very soon!

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kieroth_whiteleaf
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Re: Suspecting beta release very very soon!

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It's entirely possible that after bugs stop trickling in (if they haven't already moved to beta2, remember that they moved to beta1 with known bugs) they'll not bother with a beta2 and move straight to RC1. I would imagine that they won't move to RC1 with known bugs, but if there aren't any new ones reported for a while and all the existing ones are fixed there's no good reason for another beta since that's the point of the RC phase anyways.

Having said that - my guess (purely a guess) based on previous behavior is that they'll move to a beta2 phase soon (whether all the known bugs are fixed or not) and probably an RC a week or two after the bug count hits 0 and stays there.

But that's all conjecture - the logic is sound but only the devs really KNOW any of it.

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kieroth_whiteleaf wrote: <snip>...and probably an RC a week or two after the bug count hits 0 and stays there.<snip>SFG
It will probably go gold even with a few number of remaining bug reports. phpBB 2.0, even in its 23rd incarnation, still has some bugs noted in its bug tracker, as does all software out there in the real world. It all comes down to how tolerable the errors are to the developers and to the end-users, and whether these boo-boos can be just put off to be resolved in the next version.

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Or some of those bugs may be so obscure, they are hard to either replicate or locate, but they are there nonetheless.

Then there are perceived bugs...
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Re: Suspecting beta release very very soon!

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kieroth_whiteleaf wrote: It's entirely possible that after bugs stop trickling in (if they haven't already moved to beta2, remember that they moved to beta1 with known bugs) they'll not bother with a beta2 and move straight to RC1.
If I'm not mistaken, the developers plan to release beta 2 to permit community testing of beta 1 revisions. I recall reading that somewhere, and I recall thinking it authoritative, but I can't recall just exactly who said it. :oops:
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SamG wrote:
kieroth_whiteleaf wrote: It's entirely possible that after bugs stop trickling in (if they haven't already moved to beta2, remember that they moved to beta1 with known bugs) they'll not bother with a beta2 and move straight to RC1.
If I'm not mistaken, the developers plan to release beta 2 to permit community testing of beta 1 revisions. I recall reading that somewhere, and I recall thinking it authoritative, but I can't recall just exactly who said it. :oops:


this would only make sense, given that the number in the bug tracker is slipping down rather than up, but sometimes fixing bugs causes new bugs and the process starts again, albieght it will likely go more quickly in that run.

Guessing beta 2 in a month :)

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Re: Suspecting beta release very very soon!

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You're probably right.

The last time we saw the bug list this low, the Beta1 was less than a month away.
But I'm not holding my breath, same as I'm not expecting a conversion script from B1 to B2.
Thus why running it live is NOT a good idea. ;)

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Computer Geek wrote: You're probably right.

The last time we saw the bug list this low, the Beta1 was less than a month away.
But I'm not holding my breath, same as I'm not expecting a conversion script from B1 to B2.
Thus why running it live is NOT a good idea. ;)


That's why i'm hoping "backup up data only" works with beta :P

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I can tell you right now that won't work... simply because of the massive BBCode overhaul.

Try it on your localhost sometime, though you might want to have a gag-bag nearby. ;)
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Can we somehow spectate progress of creation beta 2 or final release? This waiting without any information annoying me a little bit.

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You can observe the CVS progress. I don't know what other information you'd like?

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