[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

mike cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 20:43:24 UTC 2011


On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:

>  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.

That would work - though it needs a clear criterion for deciding when
Alpha-N should become Beta-1 ? Similar for the other transition from
Beta to RC.

I guess it is easier to decide when enough blockers are resolved to go
from RC to GA.

-- 
mike c


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