It depends on how vb savvy you are and if you are willing to put up with a little discomfort every now and then. If you can paste and copy, then all you have to do is check out the bug reports for any fixes on the com as they happen and you will be fine. Like I said in the post above, the last 2 betas have been fairly stable for me. But then I run a small board so I don't get the beating a bigger site gets. I say...Go for it!
It depends on how vb savvy you are and if you are willing to put up with a little discomfort every now and then. If you can paste and copy, then all you have to do is check out the bug reports for any fixes on the com as they happen and you will be fine. Like I said in the post above, the last 2 betas have been fairly stable for me. But then I run a small board so I don't get the beating a bigger site gets. I say...Go for it!
I bet you my board is smaller
Yeah, I'm comfortable with all that.... thank you for your help, I appreciate it
Upgraded with no issue. The fun upgrade was from 3.6.8 to 3.7.0b4. The 5b was piece of cake. All my mods work great, had to do a little configuring nav bar wise and such after reverting templates, but its all good.
That means it's in the final stages and most of anything that was added has already been done. This is the serious bug-finding stage. Hopefully a lot of them have already been found and corrected. The RC versions are supposedly more stable than the betas although I have found the last couple of betas pretty stable.
Sorry to be pedantic but I think it's important in this case... RC's should NOT be the serious bug finding stage!!! Betas are the serious bug finding stages. A "Release Candidate" does exactly what it says on the tin, it's a candidate for release and is a final safeguard to spot any final bugs.
In an ideal world all bugs are fixed after the last beta, and then a RC is released without bugs - that RC then goes Gold/RTM and Bob's your cousin's father. Of course in many cases there'll rightly be several RCs just to ensure that all bugs are indeed caught - but when a RC is released with no bugs (or just a couple of minor ones that can be fixed without having an impact elsewhere), then the code is ready to go Gold/RTM.
I know - I need a slap for being so pedantic, but it's happening more and more where RCs are treated like Betas, and final software is treated like RCs, and I think it's healthy just to stop and think about each part of the design/release cycle of software - to set expectations correctly and to back up programmers/coders when users/owners are expecting too much.
Oh, and happily been using 3.7b3 since its release without any issues - will be upgrading to 3.7b5 this weekend!
02-14-2008, 10:00 PM
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