freebsd naming of releases
Erich Dollansky
oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Mon Mar 28 21:41:15 PST 2005
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?
>
>
> Release announcements usually include the expectations for the release.
> Would you run anything that said "Preview" on a production server?
>
It is not what you do with it but how easy it is to see what it is ment for.
>
> I find that the terms "alpha", "beta" and "production" do not quite fit
> the FreeBSD development paradigm. (Is RELENG_5 beta or production?)
>
It is pretty simple. There will be a 5.4 alpha, 5.4 beta and finally a
5.4 final if the code gets stable enough.
There would be the same for all other versions.
> PS: I'm willing to elaborate off-list (current@ probably isn't the best
> forum for this discussion).
>
Let also the others have some fun. We could switch the list, but to
which one?
Erich
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