[Libreoffice-qa] REMINDER: Release 4.0.1.2 from libreoffice-4-0-1 branch

[Dan Lewis]

On 02/21/2013 09:16 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> please note that the commit deadline for 4.0.1.2, aka rc2, is
> already on Monday, February 25, 2013. It will be used as LO-4.0.1
> final if no blocker is reported.
>
> IMPORTANT: There are not two weeks between rc1 and rc2 this time. It is
> another side effect of the late schedule change when we used two weeks
> between 4.0.0 betas and RCs. We were not able to shift the feature
> freeze and final release.
>
> This should be the last anomality. There should be always two weeks
> between all betas and rcs from now on,
> see https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan.
>
> See also
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#4.0_release
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Release_Criteria
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Branches
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Petr
      I read your first link, and the summary on that page is not 
psychologically sound. Study after study has shown that when people work 
on a deadline, they begin to work faster as they approach the deadline. 
(Staying up all night in college when a paper is due the next morning is 
one common example.)
      Now we do not have the time between RC1 and RC2 to properly test 
the latter for potential bugs. So, is it possible that we will have to 
fix some bugs for 4.0.2 because we did not have the time to test and 
find it in 4.0.1 RC1 or RC2?
      Will this be the last anomaly? I doubt that very much. Any time 
there are as many changes in LibreOffice between major versions, you are 
likely to have anomaly as we just did.
      Beside, it appears that this schedule does not consider how many 
people are available in QA to test what the developers produce. None of 
us have unlimited time available for testing. If we are going to have a 
quality produce, we need the time to thoroughly test the software. 
Please put that in the schedule too.

--Dan