Forget about what you read about alpha/beta/GA/whatever on the internet.
This is an OpenSource project. It's driven by dedicated people, who do
their best to get something solid enough to be used in production. You
want a release, with all the features ? Please join us, we need more
volunteers to get it done !
Otherwise, it's up to you to use it if you feel it fits your need.
But, please, asking for an ETA or wondering when we will tag the version
as Final is just totally useless. Just ask yourself : what if SSHD 0.7.0
is renamed 1.0.0-final : would it be the end of the story for you ? And
for us ?
Be smart, check the existing code base and see if it's good enough for
you, instead of blindly trust any company claiming that the code base is
feature complete, bug free just because it's not in beta...
Le 9/25/12 1:19 AM, John Plocher a écrit :
Another way of asking this question is "Is there a list of features that
need to be completed before the team will consider the project to be
feature-complete"?
From several decades of dealing with product and project life-cycles, the
alpha and beta tags most certainly have a relationship to features in
user's eyes:
- An Alpha project is presumed to be main-feature-complete and
main-use-case stable, but not bug free or feature complete, while
- a Beta project is presumed to be both feature complete and stable
enough to be usable outside the development community
- The alpha phase usually ends with a feature freeze, indicating
that no more features will be added to the software. At this time, the
software is said to be feature complete.
- Some software is kept in perpetual beta—where new features and
functionality are continually added to the software without establishing a
firm "final" release.
It may well be that SSHD is an instance of the last "style"...
-John
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote:
Alpha and beta usually refer to maturity, not features.
We don't call it alpha or beta because it's not, though the fact that sshd
is not feature complete means that the api may need to change a bit to
accommodate new features, hence the 0.x version. Fwiw, missing features
are mostly on the client side, and the server does not change much but for
bug fixes or minor improvements.
--
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
