[Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman 3 alpha 5

2010-01-20 Thread Clare Redstone
Hi, I don't know enough about how new releases are named. Does alpha mean this Mailman 3 is now ready for general use? Should I ask my host provider to move us to it? I'm a bog-standard user so not ready for something that is still going through early tests and doesn't have everything set up

Re: [Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman 3 alpha 5

2010-01-20 Thread Terri Oda
The short answer is no, you do not want to ask for an upgrade yet. An alpha release is an early one, prior to the product being ready for all users. Wikipedia has a reasonable page explaining how software releases are often named: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_release Terri Clare

[Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman 3 alpha 5

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Clare Redstone writes: I don't know enough about how new releases are named. Does alpha mean this Mailman 3 is now ready for general use? Should I ask my host provider to move us to it? I'm a bog-standard user so not ready for something that is still going through early tests and doesn't