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Old 09-04-2014, 11:07 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by chaley View Post
My intention would be to make intermediate releases to the alpha group once I have new functions/change that are internally tested. These releases might happen once a week, faster if comments call for it, slower if I am feeling lazy or traveling.

The beta group would get releases a week or two before I intend to make a general release, which generally happen every three months or so. The hope is that the beta releases are very close to production, and because of that I will be much less willing either to add new functionality at that point or to change them for anything that isn't a bug. Of course, the definition of "bug" is mutable.

a_daley's comment about backups is a good one. There is no guarantee that one can revert to an older release without doing a total uninstall. Reasons: releases change both the database structure and the meaning of settings, and reverting won't revert those changes. In general, doing a CC settings backup before upgrading will suffice unless there is also a database upgrade, but I can't guarantee this. And it is worth noting that this has always been true for prereleases. Having an alpha group won't change that.
If you use Titanium Backup it can restore even db changes if you restore app + data. I would do the alpha group if you have one. I do weekly backups so I wouldn't lose a lot even if I did revert.
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