Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | What we have is like Debian. | > | | Gold = stable | > | Silver = unstable | > | Bronze = testing | > many of my students were scared by the name "unstable" and did not | > want to touch it. I don't think they are unique in that respect. | > I know that for GCC, for example, we call mainline, "experimental" | > -- not | > "unstable". Personally, I would prefer to reserve the "negative" | > sounding "unstable" to branches like "build-improvements" -- which | > really can be very unstable :-) | | I just wanted to follow the naming conventions of a big project like | Debian.
Yes, I know debian uses that word. And it also has the reputation for "being for the though guys" -- whether that is justified or not. But, with people I've talked to (not just here, but before I even consider going to the US) "unstable" does not come with good prejudice. We have to think about it. Like I said, I much prefer "experimental" to "unstable". I would prefer to reserve "unstable" for much more experimental work than silver. | I quite believe that people who use Debian unstable all well | aware that things could break. I don't dispute that -- just like people using "experimental" knows things might break. They have very different "implied connotations". | Anyway "unstable" does not have such a | bad conotation for Debian. Am I wrong? As I said, Debian is known -- rightly or wrongly -- to be for the "though guys". I don't want Axiom to be for the tough guys. | If we call Silver = experimental that is not very different from | "testing". If you can come up with anthing better, you're welcome. It definitely is. I really would like to not call the build-improvements branch "testing". I do believe that "unstable" for silver is not doing it justice. | A suggestion could even be... drop "stable", "unstable", "testing" and | just call the branches Gold, Silver, Bronze with a definition of what | they are and the understanding that there is just ONE Gold and ONE | Silver but many Bronze branches. That is one way of doing it. As long as we reserve "unstable" for far worse situations. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer