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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Francis J. Lacoste
<francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On November 16, 2010, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On 16 November 2010 09:59, Francis J. Lacoste
...
>> > - Discussion on the priority of those bugs ensue.
>>
>> I think that's a great idea, to make sure that there are not too many
>> bugs open before we move on.  I wonder if we should advertise that
>> more broadly than just the individual stakeholders - perhaps a post to
>> launchpad-users or the Launchpad blog to say "we think we're done with
>> X".  This might draw in more people to test it and give us more data.
>> (I know it might also lead to attempted bikeshedding, but we can
>> handle that.)
>
> I don't think we need to make this part integral to the policy at this stage.
> We do advertise new features at this stage on the blog and mailing lists and
> do get bug reports at this time. The process do specify that user submitted
> bugs are to be considered in the process.
>

Agreed.

Also, I think that after we get a little bit more experience with
managing new features using feature flags, we should invest some
effort into how to do beta programmes well.

jml