On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:31:22 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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..
Actually the suggestion to rename to gamma was a joke. ;-) My maths students are always confused with my use of such strange symbols, AKA Greek alphabet. :-) The more serious proposal made by me some months ago is to rename pre(-releases) to rc (release candidate), a name used more commonly used by other projects. IMHO we use pre for historical reasons. > > 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: Argh, ... I knew there was something fishy about that phew. :-) > 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. Yes. > > 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 :-) Here we don't have the red and yellow combo, usually we take a look at pedestrian signal's. :-) > Anyway, I've jotted down a few notes here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/UnsortedNotes I will take a look there. :-) > /Christian -- José Abílio
