2012/1/25 Jos Vos <jos@xxxxxx>: > 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, I do not quite understand what you mean. > stability, etc. I do not think that people will expect high stability from consumer preview. > > -- > -- 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 -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
