Hi :) Ok, so that sounds like the 4th or 6th "cycle" of a branch has reduced the bugs and regressions = i think most people would call that making it more stable wouldn't they?
Then the point about recent releases having had less usage seems to be saying that it is not quite so stable. Actually that does make a lot of sense. When new features are added it would be surprising if there were no unexpected problems. I think most people would understand that and understand that as being slightly less stable than it will be in the future. That all makes total sense. I am beginning to like the sound of "mature branch" and "young branch". Of course a google search for mature, or young, might bring up some bad sites that we wouldn't want to be associated with. It's annoying because otherwise that might be a really good way of describing the difference between the 2 branches. So i think we still need to try to think of a really short name for each branch that describes what it's advantage is over the other branch. Still vs fizzy don't seem to be popular but was worth a try. SliTaz's "stable" vs "cooking" seems to have been rejected already. Stable vs unstable doesn't cover it. Development vs stable suffers the same problem. Has anyone else got ideas? I think it would be great to have a wiki-page or something where people can post their ideas slightly anonymously and then maybe people could vote for which ones they prefer. Regards from Tom :) On 6 August 2014 12:52, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 06/08/2014 13:00, Tom Davies a écrit : > > Hi :) > > Ok, so the question is why have 2 different branches at all? > > > > The "Fresh" branch has the advantage of having more features but what > > advantage does the older branch have? > > To have less bugs and regressions that make it more sure to use by > average users. When you are at the 4th or 6th cycle of a release, you > can consider that almost all of the functionalities have been used and > if there was bugs or regressions they have been reported and depending > on there severity/impact, they have been corrected. Which is not true > for the more recent release with less usage and less users, it needs > more time and cycles. > Kind regards > Sophie > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
