freebsd naming of releases
Rene Ladan
r.c.ladan at student.tue.nl
Tue Mar 29 10:11:35 PST 2005
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 01:16:34AM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erich Dollansky" <oceanare at pacific.net.sg>
> To: "Andre Guibert de Bruet" <andy at siliconlandmark.com>
> Cc: "Chris" <chrcoluk at gmail.com>; <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 12:39 AM
> Subject: Re: freebsd naming of releases
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >>
> >>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >>
> >>>It would be much easier for many users to understand terms like "alpha",
> >>>"beta" or "production" as others to it. There is not other meaning in
> >>>"release" as it is released but for what purpose?
[snip]
> Maybe instead of trying to fit into too few categories, just have every
> daily snapshot, or every cvs commit timestamp, be rated with 3 percentage
> values:
> % changed
> % known good
> % known bad
Are these in lines of code?
> then translate the percentages to 0-255 values and use them as an RGB value
> to colorize download links on a web page.
> red , purple, blue links you stay away from,
> you use only the greenest green ones for production, or dip into yellows
> for production when necessary.
>
> the ratings on fresh or recent updates would be WAG's and mostly dark grey,
wouldn't they be red, as only % changed is known?
> but over time would become more real and get brighter as feedback
> accumulates.
>
> yes I'm kidding. :)
Surely a nice and interesting idea, but implementing would be a lot of
work I guess (not the generation of the web pages, but the % ratings).
>
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Regards,
Rene
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