Am Thursday 10 August 2006 15:12 schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea:
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 15:27, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:29:36PM +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10-08-2006 14:45 >>>
> > > >
> > > >In order not to do again the mistakes made with the zen
> > > >update and 10.1, I think we should have _two_ feature freeze
> > > >dates...
> > > >
> > > >One for the _new things_ (patterns, Xorg 7...) and one for
> > > >the _new releases_ of already used things (Kde, Gnome)
> > > >
> > > >I think the latter are already tested by they developpers
> > > >when the first seems already in a very early stage.
> > > >
> > > >I'm disquieted by the "most annoying bugs" list and the _may
> > > >be_ delayed Alpha 3.
> > > >
> > > >I personnally think that a stable distribution is better
> > >
> > > .than the very most up to date one.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was also very concerned when I saw the 'most annoying bugs' list
> > > today (as I epxected Alpha 3).
> >
> > We have Alpha3. Bugs are expected ;)
>
> Perhaps replacing Alpha with Devel would convey the right message to
> people, that these releases are development releases that are not
> feature-complete or in feature-freeze.  After feature-freeze they could be
> called Alpha, Beta...
>
> It would avoid unnecessary discussion and panicking..  not everyone reads
> the milestone plan like they ought to :-)

What is the difference between Alpha and Devel for you ?

Alphas are no feature complete and not feature frozen in mind.

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Adrian Schroeter
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