Problem "Stable" is not stable

[Christof Thalhofer <chrisml@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

a new user who has registered in the German forum gambas-club.de and is 
very interested in Gambas has drawn my attention to a problem that I 
have been aware of for some time:

Users have the impression that Gambas is not stable and that they cannot 
really rely on the programming language “because there are too much 
changes in every new version": He gave the website 
https://www.laurux.fr/ as an example and said that this had been his 
impression for quite a long time.

I had to do a lot of arguing to convince him that Gambas is stable and 
the backwards-compatibility of Gambas is really outstanding and much 
better than many other programming languages.

The reason for his impression is quite simple: What is published on 
Launchpad under the label “stable” is definitely not stable if the minor 
version has just changed. In reality, it takes months for the new minor 
version to become really stable.

At the moment version 3.18 is really really stable!

I think to address this problem we need a different release cycle 
because what is currently offered as "stable" is often damaging the 
reputation of Gambas.

So I suggest that we should think about whether it wouldn't be better to 
label a new version as “testing” and the previous one as “stable” and 
offer both on Launchpad.

Alles Gute

Christof Thalhofer

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