On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Sorry I don't understand the difference with gnome-continuous case. Could you please point it out for me? > 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 is giving the same info to apps as the booleans. We got two booleans for snapshot and prerelease and absence of both means a 'released' OS. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) FSF member#5124 _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
