[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 04/09/2011 02:35 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 13:19:55 -0700,
>   Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would it make more sense to refer to these as "Alpha Candidate", "Beta 
>> Candidate" and "Release Candidate" ?  ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1  ?
>>
>> It does mean the name will change at each stage, but it should be more 
>> descriptive as to what stage we're in.
>>
>> Thoughts?
> 
> This seems reasonable. For those of us that worry about alpha and beta
> releases the old scheme made sense, but people that aren't involved in
> that could be confused and the scheme above would be clearer for that
> group. With the lists being index by search engines it isn't difficult
> for people who wouldn't understand the context to run across the terms,
> so it's reasonable to worry about it.

Just a data point. I usually read the list, but I'm not really involved.
One minute ago I saw this thread and my first thought was
"beta RC1? what's that?".

ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1 is a lot better.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it