Euphoria Release Schedule... your help please!
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Aug 17, 2009
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The alpha releases were not on a timed basis as they were more task based, however, for our beta releases, we are going to be releasing a new beta every 2 weeks. The first was released on 8/11/2009 thus the next will be released on 8/25/2009 and the final beta on 9/8/2009. Then, 2 weeks later, 9/22, 4.0RC1!
Now, if this is to work at all, we really need your help. If you have not already done so, please download 4.0 beta 1. First play with the demos and run the bundled utilities. Then write small sample programs using new features found in 4.0. Then try to convert your old 3.x programs to 4.0 and see how that goes. Raise issues here on the forum and report bugs you find in our bug tracker.
This will allow us to proceed rapidly through the beta stages, fixing bugs, helping users along, etc... It will also make sure that when we release 4.0 final that it is a solid release, not a bug ridden release. It's a well known fact that the authors of a software product are not the best beta testers. Why? Because we know how it's suppose to function, what it's input should be and we tend to feed it what it wants. End users will read the docs, try a new syntax and find the bugs we didn't because they do what is logical, not what is always expected.
There has been some bug activity reporting and questions about 4.0 beta 1 but I believe there can be quite a bit more. Please download the beta and help us out with finding bugs. We all want a stable 4.0 release but that will not happen unless we all jump in and sniff these nasty bugs out.
Thanks for the help,
Jeremy
