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On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> At the F18 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 18
> Alpha release was declared GOLD. F18 Alpha will be released
> Tuesday,
> September 18, 2012.
It's been suggested that we should stop using 'GOLD' when talking
about
Alpha and Beta, and I think this is right. Only final releases should
be
said to have gone 'gold' - this is how the term is generally
understood,
and using it for Alpha and Beta releases confuses people as to their
status. Jaroslav, what needs to happen for the term not to be used
for
F18 Beta and future Alpha / Beta releases?
For Alpha, I used GOLD as used in the past but I'm open to a new
wording. I like "Public Alpha"/"Public Beta" as suggested in the
thread.
I talked to a few people around and they use it.
Public Alpha = latest RC compose used for redistribution/mirroring
Public Alpha Availability = the date when Public Alpha is available
(we currently call it "Alpha Public Availability" in schedules).
I was checking schedules - the GOLD is not used there, so from
this point, there's no problem. It has to be fixed in announcement,
my job :)
For TC/RC - I'm ok with it. Even for alpha/beta RC means release
candidate - something that's going to be released to the wild. Instead
of TC snapshot #x could be used but TC really means - use it for
testing, there's no confusion.
Funny story: one friend understood "is hereby declared GOLD" as
"wow, Spherical Cow was renamed to GOLD?".
R.
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