On Dec 12, 2011, at 18:09 55, Patrick Schmalstig wrote: > That doesn't make any sense. Rivendell according to you, 2.1.0, is not beta. > Another developer told me it was.
It all depends on what layer in the ecosystem you're looking at. Most Linux applications (including Rivendell) are developed groups of people (commonly referred to as 'upstream') that are quite different from the people who do the packaging and support on the various distros (e.g. RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, etc), commonly referred to as 'downstream'. The upstream folks release source code; it is the downstream folks who turn that into binary packages that are tuned to work well on a particular distro. When you mentioned that "Rivendell" should have marked a version as being 'beta', you were referencing the upstream project, hence my comment. > I am sorry for my attitude. No worries, Patrick. It *is* confusing, especially if one is coming from a non-FOSS background where the application author and packager are normally one and the same set of people. It doesn't help that people commonly refer to "Linux" as if that were a monolithic OS in the sense that particular flavors of Windows or OS-X are. The fact is that Linux is a component (specifically, a kernel) that is used as one component of many in creating what are effectively many different OSes (called 'distributions'). And hence my remarks about integration -- just because a given application is said to "run on Linux" doesn't necessarily mean that it will play nice on any given distro without some added work. That's where the downstream folks come in; people who have taken the time and trouble to make an application work on *that particular distribution* (read: OS) that they focus on. These folks are every bit as important as the people who write the application code. Many of them ha ng out on this list; they can be a wonderful resource if you run into problems. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "No, `Eureka!' is Greek for `This bath is too hot!'" | | -- Dr. Who | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
