----- Original Message ----- > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 17:07 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: > > At the F18 Alpha Go/No-Go Meeting that just occurred, the Fedora 18 > > Alpha release was declared GOLD. F18 Alpha will be released > > Tuesday, > > September 18, 2012. > > It's been suggested that we should stop using 'GOLD' when talking > about > Alpha and Beta, and I think this is right. Only final releases should > be > said to have gone 'gold' - this is how the term is generally > understood, > and using it for Alpha and Beta releases confuses people as to their > status. Jaroslav, what needs to happen for the term not to be used > for > F18 Beta and future Alpha / Beta releases? For Alpha, I used GOLD as used in the past but I'm open to a new wording. I like "Public Alpha"/"Public Beta" as suggested in the thread. I talked to a few people around and they use it. Public Alpha = latest RC compose used for redistribution/mirroring Public Alpha Availability = the date when Public Alpha is available (we currently call it "Alpha Public Availability" in schedules). I was checking schedules - the GOLD is not used there, so from this point, there's no problem. It has to be fixed in announcement, my job :) For TC/RC - I'm ok with it. Even for alpha/beta RC means release candidate - something that's going to be released to the wild. Instead of TC snapshot #x could be used but TC really means - use it for testing, there's no confusion. Funny story: one friend understood "is hereby declared GOLD" as "wow, Spherical Cow was renamed to GOLD?". R. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
