<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I would lean towards -1 for a beta - we have had this same debate numerous times before and tried using beta's before. I don't think a beta will substantially increase testing uptake and it has the rather bad side effect that people will be using old code as their reference point (as opposed to using the nightly builds where they can see the latest fixes at any time).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm happy to keep quiet if others think it is worth doing...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 6:50 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" target="_blank">jef@norbit.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Richard,<br>
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On Sat, 08. Jul 2017 at 12:43:48 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:<br>
> Just for clarity, there IS already a possibility to test/view current<br>
> master (3.0 development version == 2.99) for Windows users:<br>
><br>
> Either download the latest weekly 2.99 standalone installer from:<br>
> <a href="http://qgis.org/downloads/weekly/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://qgis.org/downloads/<wbr>weekly/</a><br>
><br>
> OR use<br>
><br>
> OSGeo4W package manager and install the "qgis-dev: QGIS nightly build of<br>
> the development branch"<br>
<br>
</span>OR qgis-full-dev which also depends on a bunch of additional useful packages.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> AND to see the most info, ALSO install "qgis-dev-pdb: Debugging symbols<br>
> for QGIS nightly build of the development branch"<br>
<br>
</span>AND now alos on qgis-dev-pdb. PLUS qgis-full-dev is the base of the weekly<br>
NSIS package.<br>
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<br>
Jürgen<br>
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