Stability of LC 8 DP2?

[Richard Gaskin]

Dar Scott wrote:

 > However, I still want to emulate your daring do.  I can take the
 > conservative approach you described during the day as the mild
 > mannered software developer, but at night, I can put on my cape
 > and jump into trying out DPs.

As I think about this more, given that the definition of "Stable" isn't 
in the dictionary sense but in the engineering sense of "no feature 
changes since last build", and given that all versions of 8.x carry 
fixes forward, I'm inclined to believe that the most robust build at any 
given time is usually the one most recently released.

Of course new features introduced in a most recent build will still need 
some testing to make sure they're solid, but any existing features 
should be as good or better than the last "Stable" build given that any 
fixes recently completed will be in the more recent build.

That doesn't account for regressions, but that's also a good argument to 
use the most recent build:  any regression is one for which a test isn't 
already in the automated test system (they use a LOT of automated tools 
to check things before release).  The sooner a bug is discovered and 
reported, the better for everyone.

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