Aha! I think I have solved the terminology problem! For many working on the LO project, English is their second language.* Clearly, when terms were being proposed, someone misheard, which why is why the two forks were not named “Fresh" and “Stale".
Rearguards, Hedley * I have only one language and even that is not too flash. Typed laboriously on my Galaxy S2 On 01/10/2014 4:01 AM, "Tanstaafl" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9/30/2014 10:40 AM, Sophie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Le 30/09/2014 16:12, Tanstaafl a écrit : > >> variation) - ie, 'Stable', 'Testing', 'Development' - is what is > ridiculous. > > > But those doesn't exist anywhere else, because we are not producing a > > distro but a desktop software and the concept is completely different. > > And yet, this is something that you don't want to ear. > > Not at all... it is nothing to do with my not wanting to hear anything. > > The end result software is completely different, but the concept is > *identical*. > > All you need to do to confirm this is read what you (the proponents of > these silly/ridiculous newly invented terms 'Fresh' and 'Still') say to > *describe* these terms to see this. > > Saying otherwise is totally disengenuous. > > >> Use STANDARD terms, then precisely define THOSE. > > > Which are certainly not stable, testing and development. > > Seriously? If you truly believe this, then you have never done any > software development. > > >> If you really insist on having two different 'Stable' branches, then > >> name them something like 'Stable-New' and 'Stable-Old' or something else > >> that makes much more sense than 'Still' or 'Fresh. > > > Then, do you think that those two stable won't confuse the users? > > Some, yes, but *far* *far* less than 'Still' and 'Fresh', nd it will be > much easier to explain the difference. > > -- > 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
