devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote on 09/18/2012 02:18:31: > From: Stijn Hoop <st...@sandcat.nl> > To: Development discussions related to Fedora <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Date: 09/18/2012 02:18 > Subject: Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD > Sent by: devel-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:00 -0700 > Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 22:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:51:00AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > > > It's cute, but I think might read a bit bizarre in isolation. > > > > > 'Ready for testing' is terminally boring, but seems safe... > > > > Aren't the terms "alpha" and "beta"? Fedora 18 has been declared > > > > alpha. Before that it was pre-alpha. After some more testing and > > > > fixing it will reach beta status. Right? > > > > > > But how do you say "finalized alpha release" and "finalized beta > > > release", given that these milestones go through a qa and release > > > engineering process themselves? > > > > The Alpha release itself is done now. Alpha is Alpha. Alpha is done. > > All work is towards Beta. We *test* Alpha, but all that testing is > > towards making Beta and Final better. We test Beta, to make Final > > better. But Fedora 18 Alpha is a particular thing that is now done > > and will never change. Fedora 18 Beta will be a particular thing that > > will be done and will never change. The state of F18 a week after the > > Alpha unfreeze is no longer Fedora 18 Alpha. It's something else. > > Yeah but why not rename the _Release_ Candidates as well ? > > As in: > > F18 Pre-Alpha 1 (current TC1) > F18 Pre-Alpha 2 (current TC2) > ... > F18 Pre-Alpha 5 (current RC2) > F18 Alpha > F18 Pre-Beta 1 (current TC1) > ... > F18 Beta > F18 Pre-Release 1 > ... > F18 Release == Gold > > ? > > My EUR 0.02, I don't really care that much about the color of the > bikeshed but this suggestion was the most interesting to me ;-) > > --Stijn > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
That's the simplest, easiest to understand (without referencing a wiki for definitions) option I've seen proposed yet. -- John Florian
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