On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 23:16:38 -0400 Roger Dingledine arma@mit.edu wrote:
- I'm strongly tempted to drop support for the alpha channel,
because I run stable builds of the browser, so that's more likely to break since it's a "install it when someone cries about it" thing for me.
Isn't this a nice success case for the alpha channel, where it found a bug and now the bug is fixed?
Don't know. Depends on if people expect the alpha channel to be usable or not.
At this point there's been what I ordinarily would consider unreasonable periods of time when the alpha release was unusable due to things that I either broke and didn't test for (because I basically exclusively use the stable release), or the browser changing and things breaking that I can't test prior to a release being made.
If it's just a "testing" thing, then this may be fine. Otherwise, delivering something that ends up being broken quite often isn't very responsible in my world view.
I mean, I agree it would be smarter to have some sort of QA thing going on before alpha releases too. But if the worry is "nobody tests stuff before release", backing off so people only try the stable isn't going to help the stable stay stable.
Regardless, until I find something better, git master will keep working with the stable channel, if only because I use it.
"official" releases are an entirely different story, because I have no way of knowing if any given release will work till the release is made presently.
Regards,