XFCE 4.6 ALPHA - Pinkie is coming

[Cody A.W. Somerville]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:33 AM, jp.guillemin <jp.guillemin at free.fr> wrote:

>  Cody A.W. Somerville wrote:
>
> <snip>

> 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 ?
>

Yes, of course. Sorry if my last e-mail came across as a little snappy :-).


>
>
> 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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