[ANN] Release 8.0.2 RC-4

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter TB Brett wrote:

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

Sounds good.  Thanks for taking the time to write that.

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