devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote on 09/18/2012
02:18:31:


> From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@sandcat.nl>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora
<devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: 09/18/2012 02:18
> Subject: Re: [Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha
is hereby declared GOLD
> Sent by: devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org
> 

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:00 -0700

> Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:

> 

> > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 22:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:

> > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:51:00AM +0200, Björn Persson
wrote:

> > > > > It's cute, but I think might read a bit bizarre
in isolation.

> > > > > 'Ready for testing' is terminally boring, but
seems safe...

> > > > Aren't the terms "alpha" and "beta"?
Fedora 18 has been declared

> > > > alpha. Before that it was pre-alpha. After some more
testing and

> > > > fixing it will reach beta status. Right?

> > > 

> > > But how do you say "finalized alpha release" and
"finalized beta

> > > release", given that these milestones go through a
qa and release

> > > engineering process themselves?

> > 

> > The Alpha release itself is done now. Alpha is Alpha. Alpha is
done.

> > All work is towards Beta. We *test* Alpha, but all that testing
is

> > towards making Beta and Final better. We test Beta, to make Final

> > better. But Fedora 18 Alpha is a particular thing that is now
done

> > and will never change. Fedora 18 Beta will be a particular thing
that

> > will be done and will never change. The state of F18 a week after
the

> > Alpha unfreeze is no longer Fedora 18 Alpha. It's something else.

> 

> Yeah but why not rename the _Release_ Candidates as well ?

> 

> As in:

> 

> F18 Pre-Alpha 1 (current TC1)

> F18 Pre-Alpha 2 (current TC2)

> ...

> F18 Pre-Alpha 5 (current RC2)

> F18 Alpha

> F18 Pre-Beta 1 (current TC1)

> ...

> F18 Beta

> F18 Pre-Release 1

> ...

> F18 Release == Gold

> 

> ?

> 

> My EUR 0.02, I don't really care that much about the color of the

> bikeshed but this suggestion was the most interesting to me ;-)

> 

> --Stijn

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