On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:21:00 -0700 Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 22:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:51:00AM +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > > > > It's cute, but I think might read a bit bizarre in isolation. > > > > 'Ready for testing' is terminally boring, but seems safe... > > > Aren't the terms "alpha" and "beta"? Fedora 18 has been declared > > > alpha. Before that it was pre-alpha. After some more testing and > > > fixing it will reach beta status. Right? > > > > But how do you say "finalized alpha release" and "finalized beta > > release", given that these milestones go through a qa and release > > engineering process themselves? > > The Alpha release itself is done now. Alpha is Alpha. Alpha is done. > All work is towards Beta. We *test* Alpha, but all that testing is > towards making Beta and Final better. We test Beta, to make Final > better. But Fedora 18 Alpha is a particular thing that is now done > and will never change. Fedora 18 Beta will be a particular thing that > will be done and will never change. The state of F18 a week after the > Alpha unfreeze is no longer Fedora 18 Alpha. It's something else. Yeah but why not rename the _Release_ Candidates as well ? As in: F18 Pre-Alpha 1 (current TC1) F18 Pre-Alpha 2 (current TC2) ... F18 Pre-Alpha 5 (current RC2) F18 Alpha F18 Pre-Beta 1 (current TC1) ... F18 Beta F18 Pre-Release 1 ... F18 Release == Gold ? My EUR 0.02, I don't really care that much about the color of the bikeshed but this suggestion was the most interesting to me ;-) --Stijn -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
