F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

[Michał Piotrowski]

2012/1/25 Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl>:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>
>> Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming
>> Alpha -> Developer Preview
>> Beta -> Consumer Preview
>> Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview
>>
>> http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-called-the-consumer-preview
>>
>> It seems to me that this is a very good change for reasons of PR. Such
>> change in Fedora prerelease naming might encourage more people to test
>> prereleases. IMHO "Consumer Preview" sounds a lot better than "Beta"
>> :)
>
> I think the words alpha, beta and RC say exactly what it is.  It's bad
> to have people install "consumer previews" and expecting things they
> won't get, such as upgradabilty,

I do not quite understand what you mean.

> stability, etc.

I do not think that people will expect high stability from consumer preview.

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