[Dune] Release

[Oliver Sander]

Markus Blatt schrieb:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:16:57AM +0200, Oliver Sander wrote:
>   
>> In my humble opinion, the checks of 271 are regression tests, and if we 
>> consider
>> them necessary they should be automated.  
>>     
>
> Unfortunately they are not automated. Anybody is welcome to do this. 
>
> Further more I doubt that they can be, as
> this is more than just a search for simple programming errors.
>
>   
>> For my part I do not have the time
>> to run them again after the sixth, seventh, and eighth beta release.
>>
>>     
>
> This probably applies to all of us. Still some testing would be nice.
> We should release anyway before semester start.
>
> It is now or never, isn't it?
>
> Markus
>   
I agree.  Actually, I think we are demanding way too much from
the release.  We should accept that it cannot be bugfree and should
rather target for a 1.1 soon rather than trying to get 1.0 perfect
by iterating through a zillion of betas.

--
Oliver

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