Re: DP, RC, GM, Stable and tree diagrams

2014-11-14 Thread James Hale
I think the point of the nomenclature is in the decimal place (pardon the pun.) X.Y denotes a major release, with new features and other nasties. So they get a DP to start with. X.Y.Z are simply bug fixes, and perhaps a minor change here or there. Being based on a stable release they no longer r

Re: DP, RC, GM, Stable and tree diagrams

2014-11-13 Thread Richmond
On 11/13/2014 11:51 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > For us bottom-feeders it might be easier to understand why, for > instance, 7.0.1 started with RC (release candidates) while 7.0.0 > started with DP (developer previews) Ben added definitions for DP, RC, and Stable at the top of t

Re: DP, RC, GM, Stable and tree diagrams

2014-11-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > For us bottom-feeders it might be easier to understand why, for > instance, 7.0.1 started with RC (release candidates) while 7.0.0 > started with DP (developer previews) Ben added definitions for DP, RC, and Stable at the top of the Downloads page:

DP, RC, GM, Stable and tree diagrams

2014-11-13 Thread Richmond
For us bottom-feeders it might be easier to understand why, for instance, 7.0.1 started with RC (release candidates) while 7.0.0 started with DP (developer previews) if RunRev could publish some sort of tree-diagram so we could get a better understanding of the relations and inter-relations betw