[Qgis-developer] Fwd: QGIS stable, release, master, development, nightly build, latest, unstable etc etc

[Matthias Kuhn]

On Die 01 Okt 2013 10:24:27 CEST, Alex Mandel wrote:
> On 09/30/2013 12:39 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:
>>> good point - IMHO alpha, preview, testing, unstable are acceptable,
>>> the others are less appropriate and understandable.
>>
>> I would prefer "Preview" or "Testing" - as "unstable" implies that it
>> is less stable than the official releases, which is not necessarily
>> the case. It can be less stable, but in between there could be
>> releases that are more stable than the official release. So unstable
>> is not a very good term in my opinion. Personally I like "Preview".
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
>
> I'm not disagreeing, "Testing" or "Preview" seems like reasonable names,
> as long as no one gets them mixed with "Release Candidate". "Preview"
> might be better as that term does not exist in the Debian world at all
> from what I know.
>
> I do know where the term "unstable" comes from though: yesterdays build
> worked, today's doesn't, maybe tomorrow will but we can't be sure. So
> it's more of the - it may break at any time and we reserve the right to
> break it for a few days if some big change is working through.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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Thinking about it, I like "preview" more than "testing".
It encourages people to test it (who does not want to preview what's 
coming up next?) but at the same time emphasizes, that it's not final 
yet and readyness for production should not be taken for granted.

Matthias