On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 02:01:16PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 05:52:54PM +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > >> Applications can use this to determine if an OS is just a snapshot and > >> not an actual released product yet. For example, gnome-continuous images > >> for development snapshots of GNOME and nightly build ISOs of Fedora etc. > > > > Hmm, hang on, this is getting confusing now. > > > > My understanding was that the GNOME continuous images were officially > > released products, not development pre-release snapshots. > > I think it was the other way around. :) > > * pre-release examples: Fedora X alpha/beta and GNOME 3.9.91/2 ISOs. > * continuous snapshot examples: Fedora nightly ISOs and GNOME continuous images. > > So yeah, they are different and now we have already code/api that > differentiates both. That's not the way I was imagining it though ! When I read 'continuous' I was believing that reflected a GNU Arch/Gentoo style continuous rolling release. The idea is that before now the 'release-date' would implicitly tell you when an OS was "GA" ready, but that isn';t availble for rolling releases, hence the 'is-continuous' tag would help you there. The classification you've described though means we still have the hole around the Arch/Gentoo rolling release model. I think perhaps we've been looking at this wrong and what we really should have is an enum 'status' field, rather than multiple booleans <status>snapshot|prerelease|released</status> Where snapshot == nightly builds / automated code snapshots prerelease == formal alpha/beta/rc like releases released == final cut releases That would handle all the scenarios we've talked about I believe. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
