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Re: New - Open Beta Build number in Universe Settings (Wishlist)
Re: New - Open Beta Build number in Universe Settings // Wishlist
Jan 25, 2003, 3:54pm
I like this idea :)
[View Quote]"technozeus" <TechnoZeus at techie.com> wrote in message
news:3e32ad23$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Right now in the Universe Attributes the following build number categories
are listed...
>
> Minimum Browser ___,
> Latest Browser ___,
> Latest 2.2 Browser ___,
> Beta Browser ___,
> Minimum World ___,
> Latest World ___,
> Beta World ___,
>
> I'm not sure if that "Latest 2.2 Browser" still needs to be there, since
it currently is set (in the main Active Worlds universe) to build 419 which
is version 3.3, not version 2.2, but that's not what this is about.
>
> I would like to see the following two added...
> Open Beta Browser ___,
> Open Beta World ___,
> so that the beta team would be considered early or closed beta while an
option would exist to issue an open beta in the case of a build that seems
as stable as the latest release build but for example may be lacking full
documentation or may need further verification of it's stability.
>
> I'm not really sure if the Open Beta World makes any sense in this
context, but here's what I had in mind for the Open Beta Browser...
>
> Let's say the following numbers were set...
>
> Minimum Browser: 402,
> Latest Browser: 419,
> Open Beta Browser: 443,
> Early Beta Browser: 454,
> Minimum World: 43,
> Latest World 43,
> Open Beta World 45,
> Early Beta World 49,
>
> Then browser build 443 would not be offered automatically as an upgrade to
people who are not on the beta team, but would be available through a
"Upgrade to open beta" button on the Advanced options tab or something like
that, and would not refuse to run without a beta citizen number as a normal
beta version does.
>
> I don't know "when" it would be apropraite to add such an option, but I do
think it would be nice to have added some day so that the option would be
there at a time when it would come in handy.
>
> TechnoZeus
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