On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, José Matos wrote:
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 3:17:09 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is -pre and -beta the same? Should the readme talk about -beta instead?
/Christian
alpha, beta and pre (we should rename this to gamma) are three stages
were we put different emphasis on the stability.
I agree that renaming it gamma would help. If I'm confused about this, I
not sure what normal users think. For some reason I thought 'pre' was less
stable than 'beta'. Oh well..
alpha- development snapshot, where we phew, if any, new major features
as compared with the stable release
Eh? I mentally did s/phew/few/ but I still can't parse it with confidence.
Do you mean the following:
An alpha release is a snapshot of the development at a point when
the developers expect to only add a few, if any, new major
features before the first stable release.
You can imagine this has a traffic light system regarding the test by
users:
alpha - red
beta - yellow
pre - green with a flashing yellow
stable - green
Hmm... we don't have green with flasing yellow in Sweden.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafiksignal
we have
red => stop
red and yellow => prepare to drive, will become green soon
green => go
yellow => prepare to stop, will become red soon
flashing yellow => traffic light not in operation, obey signs
So as you can imagine, your analogy doesn't help me :-)
Anyway, I've jotted down a few notes here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes
/Christian
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