[ANN] Release 8.0.2 RC-4

[Peter TB Brett]

On 29/07/2016 14:48, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> With the conference just days away I'd understand if you don't have time
> for this right now, but when you do it might be helpful to get a brief
> overview of the development process which helps us better understand the
> purpose of continuing 8.0 while 8.1 is in development, and to know if
> there's anything we can do to help see 8.1 builds more frequently so we
> can continue testing the new features without running into the ones
> already fixed in the 8.0 series.

People have production applications that they need to deploy, and there 
are bugs in LiveCode that affect them.  They need a maintenance branch 
of LiveCode where they get regular GM releases that they can rely on not 
to break their existing apps.

Usually, we try to make maintenance branch releases at the same time as 
DP releases.

The main things that have been blocking making any releases at all for 
the past couple of weeks have been some nasty crash problems (which 
were, ironically, introduced by a _fix_ for some nasty crash problems, 
but that's software development for you) and a build issue that meant we 
weren't able to reliably produce LiveCode Indy and Business engines for 
Windows.

Panos is currently performing pre-release QA for a LiveCode 8.1.0 DP 3 
release, and if there are no serious problems found, I expect that the 
release will be very soon!

On the subject of frequency: the core dev team currently tries to make 
one maintenance branch release and one development branch release during 
each two week sprint.  I don't expect that it will be sustainable to 
have a release cadence that's any faster than that.

                                                 Peter

-- 
Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
LiveCode Technical Project Manager

LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/