Are we ready for the 2.0.0 release in mid-May?

[Beth Leonard]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:06:21AM -0400, Josh Sled wrote:
> Should we do a seperate RC in about a week (May 7th)?
> 
> Should we bother with RCs at all?  All that really matters is that we
> stop making commits at some point ... when should that point be?  I'd
> say 5/7 ... Wed 5/10 at the latest.

As someone who only has very limited time available to test, I
appreciate release candidates.  Everytime I've opened a SVN version,
I've found what I consider to be a blocker which takes me 2-3 hours
to track down and make a simple test case for.  I haven't tested
even half of the features I use.

A clean 2.0.0 can make or break GnuCash.  Remember the slashdot
complaints for the 1.9.x announcement that got picked up?  People
only want VERY STABLE software managing their finances.  If 2.0.0
comes out, people use it, and then a major bug with math/saving data/
importing data/etc gets found and publicized, that's bad.

You want something that more people have tested, (even to have
only read in their 1.8.x files with) and one way to get more
testers is to advertise a release candidate.

A "Release candidate" is something that I can feel more
confident using my working data with.  I take less time backing
up etc.  (Right now I only use 1.8.x with my real data and anything
I enter in 1.9.svn gets lost because I always revert to my last 1.8.x)

Just my 2 cents.

--Beth 
PS. Just got home from a weekend away on a Girl Scout trip.  I'll
run that test scanario Chris mentioned in bugzilla after I get a
shower.  From my understanding it should be fine... but then that's
why we test these things.
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+                             Beth Leonard                          +
+       O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave              +
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