<div dir="ltr">How about making a formal announcement (mailing list, website, wiki etc) telling the users that QGIS version 2.X is in feature freeze and therefore is sufficiently stable to be tested by end users? This may increase the number of testers.<div>
<br></div><div>As an end user that uses QGIS for production, this is the only time I work with QGIS Master. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Jonathan Moules <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathanmoules@warwickshire.gov.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>Why not? We're talking about a feature freezed period!? The nightly build<br>
is a snapshot what what will get release. Where do you see a difference?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it's a perception thing.</div><div>"Nightly build" in my mind always means "bleeding edge may or may not work, use at own risk." I'm aware that doesn't always mean "<i>it will crash your computer, burn down your house, and spend your life savings on questionable drugs</i>", but it's certainly not what I see as a synonym for "stable" either.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Every time I see a nightly, it always comes with a big scary caveat (QGIS does too - <a href="http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html" target="_blank">http://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html</a> ). This trains users not to use them. Taking one of the nightlies and re-branding it to something more amicable would get more folks to test it. Just copy and paste it and rename the file. :-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jonathan</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Very few average user will install a nightly development build, but you get<br>
> an higher chance of getting a broader number of people (that interacts with<br>
> QGIS in different ways) to test out your product before it's released.<br>
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</div>Why should it matter if we call it "weekly snapshot", "nightly build" or<br>
"prerelease"? It's the same thing, just the tag is different. And<br>
installation is essential as easy as installing the stable release.<br>
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> It also helps channel what your describing as noise (i.e. users running<br>
> into problems) into a better managed call for people to test and report.<br>
> The noise will happen no matter what. But it might make some sense to<br>
> trigger some of that noise (valid bugs and "invalid" RTFM cases) _before_<br>
> you release your final version via a pre-release social media and news site<br>
> "try this pre-release build" :)<br>
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> It's really more a matter of presentation to the users than of actual work.<br>
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</div>Exactly. And that's what I meant with noise: "tada, there's a new weekly<br>
snapshot/prerelease/nightly build" - not users running into problems. Because<br>
I see that as the only significant difference to what we already have.<br>
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