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<p>Hi Tim<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/19 5:14 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:<br>
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On 10/17/19 12:35 PM, Régis Haubourg wrote:<br class="">
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nice, I think the real issue is that we lack<br
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beta testers. Shouldn't we rediscuss of beta / RC
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I couldn't agree more on this.<br class="">
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What we really have is a lack of communication prior to
.0 releases.<br class="">
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Is someone else motivated to sit together and work on a
plan regarding future release communication and beta
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<div class="">Well in the future I think we will be able to
use the in application feed to appeal to our existing
users to please test the upcoming release. Perhaps Jürgen
could add some magic to his release scripts to push out
something to the feed when the freeze hits….?</div>
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<p>I think this will be one piece in the puzzle.</p>
<p>Next to this I'd like to see other measures, like a release being
labelled <i>"QGIS LTR 3.12 Beta 1"</i> on the splash screen and
possibly other communicative measures by mail, blog, application
news feed etc, like Qt does for example
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.14.0-beta1-released">https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-5.14.0-beta1-released</a> .</p>
<p>I think it would be best to have a small group to discuss
possibilities and required efforts and come forward with a
proposal.<br>
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<p>Matthias<br>
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