[TEAM] Milestone participation for the Yakkety cycle

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at shimmerproject.org
Sun Apr 24 12:02:24 UTC 2016


On 2016-04-24 14:59, flocculant at gmx.co.uk wrote:
> My position is that we only participate in the Final Beta.
>
> My reasoning being :
>
>   * 1 - while we might get a handful of people testing - they only see
>     what's been listed - rarely see new things listed
>   * 2 - users think it's something to use for weeks and weeks -
>     totally breaking the use of the dailies
>   * 3 - more work in-house dealing with both release notes on wiki and
>     website
>   * 4 - we have to provide someone now (read one of the release team -
>     read me ;) ) and again to run the milestones with -release team
>
> While points 3 and 4 deserve mention - it is points 1 and 2 which are 
> more important imo.
>
> I don't believe that we gain much from doing the first beta and it in 
> fact is more likely to cost us.
>
> regards
>
> Kev
>
>
>

I agree with Kev,

one beta is more than enough for an LTS+1 cycle. We also have quite a 
lot to do with 16.04.1, so attention will be split there too.

Cheers,
Pasi

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