XFfm issue

[Biju Chacko]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:39:51 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 22:36, Lionel Laratte wrote:
> 
> > Also, I didn't realize betas were for testing.  Thanks for the info. 
> > Problem solved.
> 
> 	This is one of the things that's getting very prevalent these days.  By
> that I mean that completely blurred lines between what is really alpha,
> beta, gama and release.  In the olden days, alpha was the designation
> used when the initial proof-of-concept version was being worked on. 
> Generally it was only available to internal developers and was extremely
> unstable.  Beta was when you had the basics fairly solid but testing was
> needed for usability and feature development.  This was tested by more
> people but still in a fairly controlled way.  Gama was what we now call
> release candidates.  They were for bug squashing only and were released
> to an even wider test audience.  Then came the production release.

Nit-pick of the day: 'Gamma' has two 'm's.

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