Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (48 mails)

[Jürgen Radzuweit <juergen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch, 20. Juli 2011, 11:44:54 schrieb Rob OpenSuSE:
> On 19 July 2011 21:20, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Javier Llorente <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > I prefer the old naming scheme... alpha, beta, RC, release. It's much
> > > clear.
> >
> > Javier,
> >
> > It may be clear, but it is inaccurate.  That is why the change to
> > milestones.
> >
> > How about:
> >
> > unstable-1 ... stabilizing-1 ... RC ... Gold
>
> Is "unstable" or "stabilising" any more accurate?  The distro doesn't
> necessarily have a queue of "risky" changes, kernel & desktop
> environment releases require integration quite late on.  Rather than
> release naming being a logic problem, the issue of encouraging wider
> testing pre-release via the "beta" conivention is simply about
> emotional message; to encourage openSUSE users who *could* contribute
> useful bug reports to give it a spin and do so, rather than waiting
> till RC1.
>
> We should not waste much time on release numbering & naming
> conventions, M1 .. MN is workeable.  Labelling Alpha, Beta, RC, GM or
> Final, is more about informing the wider user base.   We all know all
> releases are going to need patching, in a modern networked
> environment.
>
> As a project, by labelling 12.1 M6 as "Beta", it allows more effective
> marketing of the pre-release, implicitly it says this should be safe
> enough for early adopters to run & use, getting a preview of 12.1
> final.  The bugs found at that point, have a better chance of being
> fixed (ideally) before the GM, or an entry in Release Notes.
>
> Larry's suggestion might not wildly increase installs of 12.1 M6, but
> it can't do any harm and disappointments are easier to take in a
> "beta" than at "RC" stage, and tend to be forgotton if a fix is
> available for GM or as an update at end of first install..
>
> Personally, I think efforts like factory-tested repo & Tumbleweed,
> have far more potential to encourage more testers, than fiddling with
> version numbers & naming :)
>
> Regards Rob

I agree, the numbering is not this important, you could also stick with the 
build number. We hope that the name "Beta" for a release will draw more 
attention of potential users. 
For me it's fun to see, that a naming scheme starts more discussion than some 
testing issues :)       


Regards
  Jürgen
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