On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, José Matos wrote:
I agree that renaming it gamma would help. If I'm confused about this,
I not sure what normal users think. For some reason I thought 'pre' was
less stable than 'beta'. Oh well..
Actually the suggestion to rename to gamma was a joke. ;-)
I'm apparantely humor impared at the moment :-)
My maths students are always confused with my use of such strange
symbols, AKA Greek alphabet. :-)
Andre has already teased you for this, so I won't bother :-)
Seriously though... how old are they?
The more serious proposal made by me some months ago is to rename
pre(-releases) to rc (release candidate), a name used more commonly used
by other projects. IMHO we use pre for historical reasons.
I'd don't have much of an opinion here, as long as we decide on a scheme.
What do we call the CVS/SVN version so that normal users can relate?
'unstable'? 'Development snapshop'?
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes
I will take a look there. :-)
Would you mind looking again?
The traffic analogy at the page still doesn't work for me so I removed
it.
/C
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