[Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha is hereby declared GOLD

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Tue Sep 18 08:45:14 UTC 2012


> 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).

Do we need any _name_ at all? 
The email announcement can just say "F18 Alpha RC3 has passed all testing and will be released as F18 Alpha".
And the schedule can just say "Alpha Availability".

My bikeshed color is no color at all.


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