Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/29/2012 12:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > The target doesn't change, the purpose of any TC or RC is always to test > it against the release criteria using the validation tests. There is a > link to the trac ticket, which usually describes the changes between TC > and RC builds, in each a

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-28 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 11:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 01/28/2012 07:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > It may, however, be worth doing something with the naming of TCs / RCs, > > as has been proposed in the past, because they do seem to confuse > > people. > > Every TC and RC announ

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/28/2012 07:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > It may, however, be worth doing something with the naming of TCs / RCs, > as has been proposed in the past, because they do seem to confuse > people. Every TC and RC announcement should have a brief blurb on who it is targeting and whats the exa

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-27 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 09:21 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Michał Piotrowski wrote: > > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > > Alpha -> Developer Preview > > Beta -> Consumer Preview > > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview > > Ugh, no thanks! > > I'd sugges

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-26 Thread Kevin Kofler
Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > Alpha -> Developer Preview > Beta -> Consumer Preview > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview Ugh, no thanks! I'd suggest going with the naming KDE, a leading Free Software project uses: Alpha

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Frank Murphy
On 25/01/12 11:01, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I don't think Fedora is for 'consumers'. Due to the policy to not include many non-free components and missing apps from main repos, I don't consider it a consumer OS. I tried it myself and also tried to put it on average user's PCs but it refuse to wo

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2012/1/25 Jos Vos : > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:01:07PM +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > >> I don't think Fedora is for 'consumers'. Due to the policy to not >> include many non-free components and missing apps from main repos, I >> don't consider it a consumer OS. I tried it myself and also tried

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Jos Vos
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:01:07PM +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > I don't think Fedora is for 'consumers'. Due to the policy to not > include many non-free components and missing apps from main repos, I > don't consider it a consumer OS. I tried it myself and also tried to put > it on average

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 01/25/2012 11:57 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:22:37 +0100, MP (Michał) wrote: Hi, Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming Alpha -> Developer Preview Beta -> Consumer Preview Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview I don't think Fed

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:22:37 +0100, MP (Michał) wrote: > Hi, > > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > Alpha -> Developer Preview > Beta -> Consumer Preview > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview The name is irrelevant. Its definition just needs to be clea

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Michał Piotrowski
2012/1/25 Jos Vos : > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > >> Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming >> Alpha -> Developer Preview >> Beta -> Consumer Preview >> Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview >> >> http://www.neowin.net/new

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Nicolas Chauvet
2012/1/25 Michał Piotrowski : > Hi, > > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > Alpha -> Developer Preview > Beta -> Consumer Preview > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview > > http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-called-the-consumer-preview > > It

Re: F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Jos Vos
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:22:37AM +0100, Michał Piotrowski wrote: > Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming > Alpha -> Developer Preview > Beta -> Consumer Preview > Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview > > http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-call

F17 proposal - prerelease version name changes

2012-01-25 Thread Michał Piotrowski
Hi, Microsoft has changed the way of prerelease version naming Alpha -> Developer Preview Beta -> Consumer Preview Release Candidate -> Enterprise (or Business) Preview http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-8-beta-may-be-called-the-consumer-preview It seems to me that this is a very good change for