Darren New wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
I've mostly been looking at Zumastor:
I've always been amazed at the lengths OSS programmers will go to
avoid commitment. Software that's been in general use for 5 years
still at pre-1.0 release, Zumastor being distributed publicly and
labeled "pre-Alpha"... WTF does that even mean, "pre-Alpha"?
Well, these things have become distorted over time, but I always thought
the rules were the following:
Beta: Has all the features, it has no known serious bugs, but it hasn't
been tested
Alpha: Has a subset of the features, probably just the core feature set,
and even that hasn't been tested, but we don't know of any serious bugs
in what is there.
pre-Alpha: We're still working on the core feature set, and there are
known serious bugs in the software.
Particularly with something like Zumastor, it is appropriate to be
conscious of the possibility of data loss. If they still think it can
lose data, calling it "pre-Alpha" strikes me as fair warning.
--Chris
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