> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Kamil Paral <kpa...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Yay for overloaded terms. What we can do is to use "current stable > > release", "previous stable release" and "Branched release". Do you think > > that makes sense or do you see a better way? > > Tricky. For ~2 months each year there are three supported current > stable releases at the same time. > > rawhide > next-release (or branched) > current-release > previous-release > expiring-release > expired > > "Branched" is good because it ties the release to the branching > process, which is an existing familiar term. I don't like combining > "branched" with the word release though, because this isn't a release > yet. Whereas 'next-release' suggests it's not yet a release but will > be. Another plus for next-release is that before branch, it's also > rawhide, whereas branched(-release) doesn't exist until branch > happens.
Thanks for the ideas, it helped me to think about this. I didn't use it in my current edit, but I quite like "next release". > > previous and expiring could just be referred to as previous. > > stable vs release > Does using both help? Or is this just wordy? I'm not thinking how the > combination helps. Is there an unstable release? Are there previous > unstable releases? Ostensibly Fedora releases stable software, so I > think stable release is redundant. I'd pick one: i.e. current-stable > or current-release. In this case I think it's better to use "current stable release", because we also have development releases, and "current release" does not make it clear which one it is. > > This way it's possible refer to supported releases as just "release" > or as *-release rather than "one or more previous stable" or "current > or previous". Just call them Fedora *-release. It's less wordy. > > Yeah there is a bit of secret decoder ring with this too, but off hand > I think it's easier to explain/document, remember, and write out than > long handing everything. In any case, the terms chosen should be > useful to those who use them the most. > > -- > Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
