On 7 July 2011 09:52, Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch, 6. Juli 2011 schrieb Larry Finger:
I seriously wonder why you think that beta releases attract more testers - taking that we had "beta"s before and changed to milestones because people were supposedly scared away from the term beta. Now you want the term beta back - but I'm willing to try. The question though is: how do you measure if it made any difference?
Put up 12.1 M6 & 12.1 Beta for download on same day and see which ppl choose ;) Rule would be to market 12.1 M6 in usual project news way and let ppl spread the simpler message about 12.1 Beta. May be say clearly that 12.1 "Beta" -> 12.1 is a feasible upgrade the project supports (no drastic changes expected?). Think yet another Milestone release, is harder to market than a new label like Beta. Must be why folk use terms like, RC, GM or "final" or noone would bother with them, but say 12.1.0.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.0.2, .. 12.1.0.11, 12.1.1.0 and so on. Few years back, I noticed (& asked why) smolt was disabled, but there's not going to be definite answers until some kind donor facilitates a stats gathering server, so there's data collated bit like (Debian's popcorn). Regards Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org