On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What do we call the release(s) just before the first stable release?
>
> LyX1.5.0-alpha0
> LyX1.5.0-beta0
> LyX1.5.0-pre0 or LyX1.5.0-rc0
Three people preferred release candidate over prerelease at
http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel.UnsortedNotes#vote
and via posts to this list I've seen two or three "I don't really" care.
Let me put it differently. Does anyone have any reason for switching to
the use of "release candidate" instead of "prerelease"?
If no one objects within a day or two I'll adjust the ANNOUNCE and README
accordingly, and try to see what else should be changed.
RC: Just do it, no need to wait.
I have no clue whatsoever why I wanted to change ANNOUNCE regarding 'pre'
v.s. 'beta', but I just committed some minor changes to the language in
ANNOUNCE.
/Christian
PS. Here's the diff in case anyone is interested in what the changes were.
Index: ANNOUNCE
===================================================================
--- ANNOUNCE (revision 18173)
+++ ANNOUNCE (arbetskopia)
@@ -16,17 +16,18 @@
- Better parsing of BibTeX databases (in the citation dialog)
- Support optional arguments for environments
-Compare with the latest stable release this is the culmination of 1
-year of hard work, and we sincerely hope this you will enjoy the
+Compared with the latest stable release, this is the culmination of
+one year of hard work, and we sincerely hope you will enjoy the
results. The changes are too numerous to summarize in a few words,
-with initial unicode support as the flagship of new features, jump
-directly to the end of this message if you want to know more.
+with initial unicode support being the flagship among the new
+features, see the end of this announcement for details.
-As usual with major releases, a lot of work that is not directly
+As usual with a major release, a lot of work that is not directly
visible has taken place. The core of LyX has seen more cleanups and
some of the new features are the direct results of this work.
-See the file RELEASE-NOTES for some known problems in that release.
+The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known problems with this release
+compared to the latest stable release, i.e. LyX 1.4.4.
In case you are wondering what LyX is, here is what
http://www.lyx.org/ has to say on the subject:
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
