Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (48 mails)

[Javier Llorente <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El Martes, 19 de Julio de 2011 22:20:24 Greg Freemyer escribió:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Javier Llorente <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > El Sábado, 16 de Julio de 2011 06:53:40 Larry Finger escribió:
> > > The Testing Core Team will hold an IRC meeting at 17:00 UTC, July 18 on
> > > Channel #opensuse-testing on the Freenode IRC Network.
> > > irc://irc.freenode.net/opensuse-testing.
> > >
> > > The agenda calls for discussion of our experiences with 12.1 MS3. As
> > > this release will likely not be available until next week, our
> > > discussion may be limited.
> > >
> > > Our second agenda item will concern our request to rename MS6 to Beta in
> > > hopes of increasing the number of testers in the critical late stages of
> > > testing. Our request was posted to the opensuse-project mailing list and
> > > has been discussed on opensuse-testing and opensuse-factory. Most of the
> > > comments have been favorable, and Stephan Kulow, the Release Manager,
> > > has agreed to make the name change although he doubts that it will make
> > > much difference. Coolo also asked how we will measure the effect of
> > > this change. If you have ideas on this matter, please forward them to
> > > the TCT.
> >
> > +1
> > I prefer the old naming scheme... alpha, beta, RC, release. It's much
> > clear.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > --
> > Javier Llorente
>
> Javier,
>
> It may be clear, but it is inaccurate.  That is why the change to
> milestones.
>
> How about:
>
> unstable-1
> unstable-2
> unstable-3
> unstable-4
> unstable-5
> stabilizing-1
> stabilizing-2
> stabilizing-3
> RC
> Gold
>
> I may have the number of milestones, etc. off, but it is closer to
> what happens.  The issue is there is no generic rule that unstable-1
> is more or less stable than unstable-5.  And the quality of the
> stabilizing releases depends on the quality of unstable-5.
>
> Unfortunately, I somehow suspect the name stabilizing-2 won't pull
> many testers.  But I do think it at least has the value of being more
> clear to the opensuse community.


Well, I think that the terms I used on the previous message are widely used on 
the software world. Another story is if they truely represent what they mean 
;)
You could also have alpha0, alpha1, alpha2,... then beta1 (of higher quality 
than alphas), beta2, beta3 and so on. A milestone could be of alpha or beta 
quality. How can you tell that milestone5 or milestone6 is better than 
milestone4?

Good night,
--
Javier Llorente