On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:12:35PM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" > <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:39 AM > Subject: Re: Alpha Announcement > > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:58:08AM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote: >>> I've taken the Alpha announcement from F10 and morphed it[1] for F12. >>> Please take a look at it and see what you can update. This should be >>> completed by COB tomorrow (Friday). >>> >>> [1] >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Announcement_for_F12_Alpha_Release >> >> Keeping in mind that our previous Alpha releases ("Can we successfully >> compose it?") were somewhat different than the current Alpha ("Should >> be generally testable"), the content of this announcement may need to >> change somewhat. Here's the F11 Beta announcement for comparison: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Beta_Announcement >> >> Note the new Alpha is something more like previous Beta, and the new >> Beta coming next month is more like previous Preview Release. > > I was thinking the same thing. (Just getting caught up after broken > email). It is probably worth mentioning something like we have always > said rawhide is known to eat babies, with this new strategy we probably > don't know whether alpha will be more or less voracious. The idea should be "less voracious than pre-Alpha Rawhide, or the level of voracity in F11 Alpha." Alpha in Fedora now means essentially the same as industry-wide, in our case "feature-complete and testable." That means that Alpha is publicly testable, not by just an anointed few. Beta should now mean "code-complete and (hopefully) as bug-free as possible." We all know that bugs happen, but Beta should be as close to a final release as humanly possible. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
