what is stable?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 20:05:16 Anne Wilson wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> Date: 2009/1/27
> Subject: Re: what is stable?
> To: KDE on Fedora discussion <fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
> Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > If you mean that KDE 4.3 and KDE 4.4 final will not be stable
>
> I think what *I* can boil-down from this conversation is varying
> degrees, definitions, interpretations of what it means to be:
> * usable
> * stable
> * releasable
>
> I'd welcome a conversation to be able to be able to (as much as
> possible) clearly define what we (fedora) consider these to be, so that
> when any such future confusion arises, we can point to the bright neon
> sign (wiki page?) outlining such.
>
Someone has to kick off :-)

In my eyes, an application is stable if it doesn't crash or do other 
unexpected things.  

A distribution is stable if it has only packages that have been tried and 
tested over a very long period, which inevitably means that it will not have 
the latest and greatest, and intends making only the minimum of changes to 
stay secure.

Anne

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