Hi Chris, On Jan 24, 2013 2:35 AM, "Christopher Jones" <christopher.jo...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > On 01/23/2013 09:37 AM, Florian Anderiasch wrote: >> >> On 01/21/2013 11:44 PM, Christopher Jones wrote: >> >>> Pierre, >>> >>> Can you review this RFC and the votes? The wording "5.5 final >>> release" needs assessing. You probably meant "first 5.5 production >>> release". If anyone interpreted it as it is actually written >>> i.e. "terminal 5.5 release", then the vote needs to be re-run. >> >> >> How do you plan to find out who would've taken it that way? Ask all who >> voted? > > > Probably. I suggest being practical and getting a best-effort feel for it. > Lack of responses to my email is one indicator that the the community > doesn't have an issue with the RFC wording. > > >> Maybe it sounds more ambiguous for a native speaker, but I actually had >> to reread this mail to get your point. I've never heard anyone use >> "final" as "terminal", > > > I have. There is also a subtle distinction between the use of "final" in > "final 5.5.0" and "final 5.5". > > >> the "final" in the software development domain >> has always been the name for the version after the RCs, at least for me. > > > That's the way I took it for my vote. The next day I realized that non-native > English speakers might possibly have thought otherwise.
I asked many native speakers and all understood it as "when 5.5.0 stable release will be announced". Cheers, Pierre
