[Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 09/18/2012 02:07 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 09/18/2012 08:45 AM, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> Do we need any_name_  at all?
>> The email announcement can just say "F18 Alpha RC3 has passed all 
>> testing and will be released as F18 Alpha".
>> And the schedule can just say "Alpha Availability".
>>
>> My bikeshed color is no color at all.
>
> Agreed
>
> "Alpha" "Beta" "Final" are descriptive enough names themselves.
>
> JBG
I agree - the Gold thing really is related to the old-school process of 
when a final CD (software or music) was turned into a gold master, which 
was then sent to manufacturing for duplication. It's just the terminology.

Another thread on this list recently (that I'm about to head back to) 
recently discussed having better education about Alpha/Beta/Final, and 
it seems like adding more terminology to the mix (bronze and silver) 
would make things even less simple/comprehensible to the outside observer.