On 8 July 2011 09:02, todd rme
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Kim Leyendecker
wrote: From my point of view, it makes more sense to declare a release that�s still very unstable and in a early development status as "Milestone", a half-way ready release as "Beta" and a three-quarter ready release as "RC".
Something you would agree with?
If you are going with that route, why not just use "alpha", "beta", and "rc"? This would send a clear message to people what level each pre-release is at. I personally never much liked the idea of using milestones because it wasn't clear when it would be expected to be usable. Using alpha, beta, and RC would put things in clear terms for potential testers, while I don't think milestone does.
Think that was the justification for just using "Milestone" as it depends what was ready to go into Factory, an M1 or M2 might be very useable, precisely because it has only had minor package updates, rather than system breaking things. The "Beta Pre-release" of 12.1, might be our first on Kernel 3.X, KDE 4.7, FF 7 and so on, especially if useable pre-release versions of software are permitted, so emphasising upgrade path to the RC series, then GM & final via updates, may be rather marketable. There's going to be "Release" Fever in October with Ubuntu & (presumably) Fedora releasing then. My concern with planning a "boosted launch" of a time based "Beta" MS is that the new features which are wanted in November, aren't in a shippable state in September. General issue with time based releases though, which aren't snapshots of production worthy rolling releases. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org