On 23 June 2017 at 09:40, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Jun 2017, at 22:23, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 22 June 2017 at 21:49, Sam Whited <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:30 AM, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> If it really is the name, then let's call it "Stable". >>> >>> I actually do think that would be very helpful; I can't tell you how >>> often random people I'm talking too say "we tried XMPP, but it didn't >>> have the feature we wanted" and I say "sure it did, that's XEP-XXXX" >>> and they reply "no, that was only draft, and we needed a working >>> version right then". Some variation of that is a significant portion >>> of conversations I end up having with random people who have tried >>> XMPP. >> >> Names are important, I agree. We picked Draft - I think, it was well >> before my time - because that's what the IETF used. It's since ceased >> to be used there; they go straight from Proposed Standard to Internet >> Standard. >> >> We could, equally well, go for the same, but if we're picking terms >> because of their utility for marketing (and I don't think that's a bad >> thing to do) then "Stable" seems the better option. >> >> It might even be worth having "Unstable", or "Alpha", or something for >> Experimental, but I'm not so sure about that. I'd rather imply >> "Bleeding Edge" than "Broken”. > > If we did change Draft->Stable, does that imply we’d want to actually make > them stable (and get rid of Final)? Draft is currently “best effort at > stable, but might have to change”.
I think the fact that there'd be both "Stable" and "Final" would give enough idea of what the distinction might be. In practise, we've got *really* good at avoiding breaking changes in Draft (we're pretty good about it at Experimental actually), so I'm not worried about being sued by the Advertising Standards Agency on this one. > > /K > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
