First experience with F18-ALPHA-TC1

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 8/13/12 10:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
>> It is a test compose of the Alpha. Alpha comes before Beta which comes
>> before Final. For each of Alpha, Beta and Final, we do test composes and
>> then release candidates. The first test compose of the Alpha is by
>> definition the earliest and most likely-to-be-broken non-automated
>> compose we ever create for a given release.
>
>
> In fairness, many projects choose not to abuse nomenclature like this.
> Seeing announce messages saying ALPHA HAS GONE GOLD makes my skin crawl,
> too.  Alphas are not gold anything.
>
> It would be far more honest to just call this alpha 1.

fwiw, I agree.

josh