[vbox-dev] Ask to extend the BETA cycle of future major VirtualBox releases

[Heinz Wiesinger]

On Monday 04 October 2010 14:02:44 Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> I am asking to extend the BETA cycle of future major VirtualBox releases.
> 
> few cases:
> v3.1.0 release had serious problems with GuestAdditions for
> openSUSE-11.x guests, and had a VirtIO crash.
> v3.2.0 release had serious problems with PageFusion and with Intel
> Westmere class CPUs.
> 
> It is quite sad that the major "x.y.0" releases are not stable enough.
> I would like to see major releases *much* more stable, and one
> possible way to do that is to extend the BETA cycle to something
> longer,
> and perhaps introduce the "RC" releases during the BETA cycle.

I don't think extending the BETA cycle would help much. The main issue is 
exposure and that's a typical issue of beta/rc versions, not only for 
VirtualBox.
The point is that a significant amount of users will wait for the "stable" .0 
release to update, giving it much broader testing than the small(er) amount of 
beta-testers ever could and hence finding mentioned bugs.
You'll never get the amount of users you have for a .0 release for a beta or 
rc version.

My $0.02

Grs,
Heinz
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