At 12:26 -0400 8/14/2003, Walt Reed wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 04:55:47PM +0100, Tim Jackson said:
>> - once you think you've reached a more stable, release-ish stage, you do a
>> 'release candidate', with the rationale of "all the features which
>> will be in the next release are now in, and have undergone at least some
>> testing. If nobody finds any bugs, this will be the next release"
>
>FWIW, I don't play with snapshots, but DO play with release candidates.
>I have found (with other software) that snapshots tend to be quite
>unstable. I can justify in my own mind spending the time to play with
>RC's on a sandbox to become familiar with any changes in configuration
>or operation so I am ready to go live with a final release.
>
>Security patches are a different issue of course.
I've learned to trust Philip's releases at a higher level of believe than
for releasing people generally. So I mentally promote "snapshot" to
"probably usable if it contains a fix I need" and release candidate (which
Philip doesn't do <yet>) would promote to "probably the real release
candidate".
Then there are the developers who manage to reach things like rc9. I tend
to use other products when I see that.
--John
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John Baxter jwblist@??? Port Ludlow, WA, USA
