Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

Hi,

On Sat, 2015-06-06 at 12:15 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, we (Simon and me) actually discussed something
> else along this line a while ago that might be worth considering. That
> is, maybe we should consider time-based alpha releases. That is, we
> can just decide "we wrap an alpha every other Monday until we think we
> are good to go with beta". The reason for that is to get much quicker
> iteration on bugfixes, which would encourage people to use and test
> these versions. Report a bug and  if it was easy enough to fix, you
> have a wrapped release with the fix in 2 weeks top.

+1. 

> Package availability would depend on platform. For those platforms
> where package building is more or less entirely automatic already,
> this could probably also be easily automated.

When we used to release more alphas years ago, I was releasing Alpha
RPMs for many platforms. I'll do it again if we keep doing it.

Regards,

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