11.02.2014 13:56, Carlos H. Cantu wrote:

> Are you sure you wanna to compare "final" with snapshots releases?

Yep. People yelled "give us frequent releases with lesser new features", so there must
be a definite difference between frequent snapshots and frequent releases. I want to find
out it exactly.

> For
> end user, final means the product passed in the QA tests and is
> supposed to be stable, ready to be used in production, with release
> notes, etc.

But you and me as well as other developers know that passing QA does not mean
stability, readiness to be used in production, etc. It only means that functionality
covered by tests is working as expected in test environment, nothing more. Nobody can be
sure that "final release" is bugs-free and post-releases with long bugfix lists is a proof
for that.
Otherwise QA team could take any snapshot and, if it passed all tests, release it as a
"new stable final version" once a month with a bit of luck.
Unfortunately, such release strategy is not going to work for Firebird. Or does it?..

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WBR, SD.