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Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 05:18:51 -0800
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archived-at: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 13:19:31 -0000

Remember we also have the 4.1.5 branch, which is a lower risk solution 
to some 4.1.4 regressions.

I think it is time to decide whether to release it, and if so, what the 
timing should be relative to the start of the 4.2 beta test. There is 
something to be said for a single announcement so that we can explain 
the relationship.

On 12/1/2017 5:13 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> I see that Pat has committed the security patches to trunk, which is fantastic!
> Maybe we should take the next few business days and go thru Bugz
> and see what, if anything, would be low-risk patches to trunk and
> pencil in, say, Dec 7th as a "code freeze" date for builds...
> 
> I can provide builds for all 4 platforms.
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2017, at 1:34 AM, Mechtilde <ooo@mechtilde.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I like this idea, too. it makes it visible that we aren't dead.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mechtilde
>>
>> Am 01.12.2017 um 03:41 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>>> I like it. I already have Linux, Windows and macOS 4.2.0-dev builds available
>>> (http://home.apache.org/~jim/AOO-builds/ <http://home.apache.org/~jim/AOO-builds/>) for some langs
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Nov 30, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Marcus <marcus.mail@wtnet.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 30.11.2017 um 21:26 schrieb Dave Fisher:
>>>>> In light of our current situation with getting builds together but not having a lot of people doing more than simple QA what does the team think about releasing a Public Beta for 4.2.0? I think that this would be an advantage for the project and might serve to bring in more of the community as QA volunteers.
>>>>
>>>> I thought it's without discussion that we need a (long) beta test phase for 4.2.0. So, yes for your proposal.
>>>>
>>>> We can create a new entry on the download webpage, some advertising areas on the other webpages, and other fine things to make it visible.
>>>>
>>>> And - also this should be clear already - we need several builds of 4.2.0 with further included bugfixes; to show an increasing quality towards the final release build.
>>>>
>>>> For me the real question is " *When* do we start the beta? ". ;-) I would like to have a specific level of quality that we give to our users. Otherwise we will get spammed by bug reports which nobody wants to handle.
>>>>
>>>> Marcus
>>>>
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