Ken Schneider <suse-list@bout-tyme.net> writes:
So is the release candidate the actual product that gets released or is it only a "candidate"? I've often seen stuff like "RC2". Doesn't that mean that the previous release wasn't a release?
It's a candidate, we test it - and if it fails, we go for the next candidate. Our process is as follows: We decide that everything is ok for the release, build the RC, test it heavily and then fix those bugs that are blocker bugs - and start with another RC. The last RC will be called Goldmaster, so for 9.3 RC4 was the goldmaster, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126