Re: criterion proposal: upgrading across 2 releases

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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Kamil Paral <kparal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Yay for overloaded terms. What we can do is to use "current stable
> > release", "previous stable release" and "Branched release". Do you think
> > that makes sense or do you see a better way?
> 
> Tricky. For ~2 months each year there are three supported current
> stable releases at the same time.
> 
> rawhide
> next-release (or branched)
> current-release
> previous-release
> expiring-release
> expired
> 
> "Branched" is good because it ties the release to the branching
> process, which is an existing familiar term. I don't like combining
> "branched" with the word release though, because this isn't a release
> yet. Whereas 'next-release' suggests it's not yet a release but will
> be. Another plus for next-release is that before branch, it's also
> rawhide, whereas branched(-release) doesn't exist until branch
> happens.

Thanks for the ideas, it helped me to think about this. I didn't use it in my current edit, but I quite like "next release".

> 
> previous and expiring could just be referred to as previous.
> 
> stable vs release
> Does using both help? Or is this just wordy? I'm not thinking how the
> combination helps. Is there an unstable release? Are there previous
> unstable releases? Ostensibly Fedora releases stable software, so I
> think stable release is redundant. I'd pick one: i.e. current-stable
> or current-release.

In this case I think it's better to use "current stable release", because we also have development releases, and "current release" does not make it clear which one it is.

> 
> This way it's possible refer to supported releases as just "release"
> or as *-release rather than "one or more previous stable" or "current
> or previous". Just call them Fedora *-release. It's less wordy.
> 
> Yeah there is a bit of secret decoder ring with this too, but off hand
> I think it's easier to explain/document, remember, and write out than
> long handing everything. In any case, the terms chosen should be
> useful to those who use them the most.
> 
> --
> Chris Murphy
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