Re: Roadmap updates

Stefan H. Holek <stefan <at> ...> writes:

> Outside of a very small circle of people, nobody touches a beta or RC  
> of Zope/Plone/Whatever. Even 3 RCs don't help against having (stupid)  
> bugs reported right after the final. That's just life I guess.

I still rememer clearly how I got burnt with several beta / rc Versions of Plone
2.0 and I guess there are many other people, too. However I tried to migrate a
2.0  Instance at work to some 2.1 rc - I ran into several Problems and it was
just before I changed my Employee. So unfortunately I could not finish that work
and give more Feedback.

I think, that this is a serious issue for Plone. Quality Assurance (in general)
is an important  issue if we want to go for (CMS) World-Dominance. I just read
Limi's statement abut the new Mailinglist and I want to add anoter point here:
Someone (maybe paid by the Foundation for this?) has to collect the bug reports
from users, go after them and ensure that new releases are as bug-free as
possible. And go for other aspects of QA - I guess y'all know them better than
me 

ECM Vendors cooperate with special customers to find bugs before launching a new
Version. Would it be an option, to work closely with a number of People who are
running sophisticated Plone sites and help them test rc Versions?

Kind Regards
Maik

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