[development] Slow down with the official releasesof contribalready, ok? ; )

[Michael Prasuhn]

Just to point out another small issue I've noticed, is that it's not  
wise for maintainers to give in to pressure to make releases for users  
bug fix and feature requests. I've seen this often, where a user finds  
a bug submits a patch, or it's fixed by the maintainer, and the  
maintainer suggests, in the queue, that the user download the -dev and  
test to see if the issue is resolved. This would work great if some  
users followed the queue and tested the contrib modules which get new  
features in -dev and then report back. However many users don't  
consider this to be important, and won't upgrade to a -dev because  
they don't want to test, don't want to spend the time upgrading, or  
don't want to upgrade from a stable to a -dev, or -dev to a -dev. So  
the maintainer makes a release, maybe tags it beta, and lets update  
status tell their users to upgrade, and then they wait to see what  
issues pop up.

I hate to say it, but I think I may have related the frequency of  
contrib releases to a lack of testing.

-Mike

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