Kanboard: pre-release?

[Busfreak]

Hello,

what about a pre-release, or an announcement of a new release, so we can test the application, change plugins and update translation befor final release?

[fguillot]

It's a very good idea. I will look how other open source projects are doing that. Any suggestions are welcome.

[REJack]

@fguillot it seems you use SemVer, if yes you could create a release like 1.0.30-alpha or 1.0.30-beta

see SemVer's pre-release Info's for more details

[levlaz]

@fguillot I really like the approach that atom takes, they talk about it in depth in their blog: http://blog.atom.io/2015/10/21/introducing-the-atom-beta-channel.html

[Busfreak]

I agree with levlaz.
The way you released in the past would best fit to the "release train model" with three rails, master, beta, stable. You work on master like you do right now. We do the testing and language work on beta, until it is stable and the "end user" gets the build from stable. New features have to be introduced to master. This leads to a time gap in releasing new fetures, but right now it's the same. 1.0.28 is stable, 1.0.29 is beta...

[fguillot]

Your suggestions have been taken into consideration: https://kanboard.net/news/release-cycle

We will try like that and adjust if necessary.