Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Sep 30 15:26:04 UTC 2009



On Sep 30, 2009, at 7:39, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> We've tried to address unclear terminology this summer with the
>> milestone adjustment proposal.
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_Adjustment_Proposal  This  
>> tries
>> to apply industry standard naming to our release process, and as  
>> such we
>> had to rename some things.
>
> The problem is that this did quite the opposite. The previous  
> terminology
> was clear to everyone here. The new one is not only unclear, it's  
> actively
> dangerously confusing as it reuses names previously used for earlier
> snapshots for later ones, which caused several developers to deliver  
> late.
> These terminology changes should be reverted for F13!
>

People with cargo cult knowledge knew what they meant but not new  
contributers nor community users. The change was for the better as it  
more clearly defines the milestones. Any change is going to cause some  
confusion with those who are used to the previous state but to change  
t again would just be worse. In no time you'll be used to the change  
and rail against any fruther change.

--
Jes




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