suggest renaming and extending the -CURRENT and -STABLE lines

[Christian Baer]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:29:12 +0200 Ivan Voras wrote:

> This will probably degenerate into a bikeshed so I'll add just one
> suggestion: rename "-STABLE" to "-ABISTABLE" or "-STABLEABI" and carry
> on as usual. :)

That however is a little hard for an inexperienced user to read or
understand. It may be the technically correct term but we all know that
there are lots of those around - not only in CS - that can't possibly mean
anything useful to an outsider.

Either we give all the branches names that are technically correct but at
the same time let the user grasp what he is doing, or we give completely
meaningless names (in a technical sense) like "Peter", "Paul" and "Mary"
and write characterizations for each of these. Using names like this will
force the user to read the documentation before choosing a branch.

Regards
Chris