On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > Alpha -> Developer Preview > Beta -> Consumer Preview > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview > > http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-called-the-consumer-preview > > It seems to me that this is a very good change for reasons of PR. Such > change in Fedora prerelease naming might encourage more people to test > prereleases. IMHO "Consumer Preview" sounds a lot better than "Beta" > :) I think the words alpha, beta and RC say exactly what it is. It's bad to have people install "consumer previews" and expecting things they won't get, such as upgradabilty, stability, etc. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
