Several months ago we talked about upgrading doliforge but it seems that it is no going to happen...
Regards,
2014-11-06 1:10 GMT+01:00 Francois Couque <address@hidden>:
Hi,
I consider myself as an end-user of Dolibarr and I have great respect for the small team of developpers of this project. I test beta versions and sometimes even git snapshots. I'm willing to help for tests but if you are an end user and you want to report a bug, it's nearly impossible.
First , you need to look at the known or already reported bugs. That's not easy to find where you have to look for that as there is no public access. When you find what it seems the right place, you just cannot look at them without an account. I found that very weird for an open source project.
Then you can submit a bug which will probably never be assigned or get comments if you're not a developper. Even if the fix is described in the bug report. I don't blame someone. I just describe the way it currently works. Moreover if you just open an account which will needs days to be validated just to look at the known bugs, your account will be closed after a while. That's only my experience and I guess many others users have probably given up like myself.
If you want more end users reporting bugs and testing beta/ RC versions, just let them accessing the bugs databases freely , let them know the process of submitting or commenting a bug, let them help as end users. Not everybody can help as a developper. Listening to the end users , being able to get their feedback could be also indeed useful.
There is probably a lot more end users than you think who are willing to help and submit bug report if they think it can be usefull.
As a end user, 1 year seems way too much between 2 releases for me especially when you're waiting for or need a new feature. "Stable" versions will have old bugs and new bugs whatever the release cycle is anyway, I know. It would be more easily accepted if the bugs database was more exhaustive and public.
My €0.02
Francois.
Le 05/11/2014 10:56, Christophe Battarel a écrit :
Not sure it will work but we can try... i dont know many end users who tests beta versions; usually they wait for the "stable" release and they report bugs at this time (look at the posts in french forums when 3.6 was out...)
For what i understand from your RC stuff, if we take an example with 3.5.x releases, 3.5.0 should have been the first RC and 3.5.5 the stable release ?
Le 05/11/2014 10:24, Doursenaud, Raphaël a écrit :
Agreed that testing on an ERP is no easy feat.
But I support the idea of a public RC. Advertised efficiently, it would be a good way to get users into the pool.After all an RC is supposed to be stable, it's what we want to release. It has already passed the beta stages and we consider this should be the final product so it shouldn't have any major defect.Ideally consecutive betas and RCs should be published at a fixed rate, eg. once a week so there is enough time between each to make some work.
Also, when done correctly, the final release _is_ the last RC.
Cheers,
2014-11-05 0:40 GMT+01:00 Jacques PYRAT <address@hidden>:
address@hidden a écrit le 05/11/2014 00:13 :
The establishment on an "visible" RC version (in the .fr and .org website) will permit users (not necessarily developer) to test more in depth version of this qualification and return faults detected. This is probably also to us to "educate" our clients to back the bugs. everyone will win.Hi,
I'm an end user of Dolibar.
I'm here because I contribute to an other Open source Project (SPIP)
And so, I use to read developpers discussion to anticipate future.
With SPIP, testing RC is OK.
But with Dolibarr, testing is dangerous !
I don't think that any en user would be confident testing RC given the risk to loose essential data !
My 2 cents,
--
Jacques — www.pyrat.net
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