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On 04/08/2011 04:25 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

>>
>> Would it make more sense to refer to these as "Alpha Candidate", "Beta
>> Candidate" and "Release Candidate" ?  ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1  ?
>>

...

> 
> How about the sequence:
> Fn-Alpha-Pre.1 Fn-Alpha-Pre.2 ..... Fn-Alpha
> Fn-Beta-Pre.1 Fn-Beta-Pre.2 Fn-Beta-Pre.3 .... Fn-Beta
> Fn-RC1 Fn-RC2 Fn-RC3...  Fn (=release)
> 
> ?

  I find both above failing in minimal surprise ... and adding unneeded
complexity.

  What is confusing about:

         Alpha-1, Alpha-2 ... Alpha-N
         Beta-1   Beta-2 .... Beta-N
         RC-1, RC-2 ...       RC-N
         Released.

 Why on earth do we need a 'candidate' for a release candidate, or an
alpha or beta candidate. We have ordinal numbers on them ... so just use
them.

   .. if RC1 is lacking - fine - we'll move to RC2 ... etc.

  My opinion of course :-)