XFCE 4.6 ALPHA - Pinkie is coming

[jp.guillemin]

Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM, jp.guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr 
> <mailto:jp.guillemin at free.fr>> wrote:
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>     Stephan Arts wrote:
>>     On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at gmail.com> <mailto:fourdan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>     Hi
>>>
>>>     On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> <mailto:stephan at xfce.org> wrote:
>>>         
>>>>     Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>>     Lets release Pinkie :-)
>>>>           
>>>     Humm, no, I disagree. It does not make much sense to me to release
>>>     what we have right now, there is little that work as expected. This is
>>>     not even alpha code IMO.
>>>         
>>     According to the milestones page, pinkie is a release dryrun... A
>>     'look, we can actually release this shit' - release.
>>
>>     AFAIK, an ALPHA is not feature-complete, and does not need to work
>>     perfectly. -- Both of which apply to xfce-trunk :-)
>>       
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>     AFAIK :
>     - an ALPHA should be feature complete, it usually have known bugs
>     and requires some polishing and code cleaning.
>     - a BETA is usually supposed to have bugs, and requires user
>     testing to find them.
>     - a RC doesn't have any **known** bug and has to be tested to
>     confirm that it's mostly bugfree .
>
>     I don't want to troll, it's just my 2 cents ;)
>
>
> Well, regardless of what any of us feel an "alpha" or "beta" or "rc" 
> should be, none of us are the release managers - Stephen is :-).
>
> However, from my experience with Ubuntu and a number of other software 
> projects, alpha is never feature complete :-)
>
> If it makes anyone feel better, Stephen could always call this a 
> "developer preview" or something instead of alpha... but why don't we 
> just get the release out instead of arguing about terminology?

Don't worry, I don't want to waste my time arguing about terminology, it 
was just my point of view, and I believe that I'm still free to give it, 
right ?

About the need to release an alpha version : no problem for me, I 
already released 2 SVN based binary packages in the Zenwalk SNAPSHOT, so 
I guess that a few hundred users are already running what is going to be 
called ALPHA ;)

JP



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>>     We actually can release Pinkie in this current state. When all the
>>     config-dialogs are in place and working, then it is time for
>>     Tuco-tuco. eg, BETA-1.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Stephan
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