Re: Problem "Stable" is not stable

[Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx>]

I understand the premise but I do not think it would work because not
enough people would be testing.
Most people are loathed to use anything other than stable branch.
I think a testing branch may not get enough usage to find the bugs.

Most likely testing will get considered stable, added to stable, only then
those unforseen bugs get reported, then fixed.
Kinda just as it is now.

I think if Gambas had many more users/testers a testing branch would work
well.

I could be wrong though, maybe a pre-stable branch would get enough testers
to make it viable.

Respects

BruceS

On Wed, 28 Aug 2024, 11:09 Christof Thalhofer, <chrisml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Dies ist keine Signatur
>
>
>