On Monday, June 18, 2012 03:30:27 PM Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, June 18, 2012 01:30:34 PM Chris Wilson wrote: > ... > > > I also think adding the "Release Candidate (RC)" designation towards the > > end of the cycle would encourage more people who are quite wary of > > installing pre-release software on their computer to get involved with > > last > > minute testing since RC indicates that it's pretty much done and all > > that's > > left is to iron out some minor glitches. > > ... > We used to call what's now Beta 1 a "Release Candidate" for similar reasons, > but renamed it because it's not really a release candidate. Generally > "Release Candidate" means "Thing that will get released if no new > significant issues turn up". Our current usage matches that and we should > stick with it. I don't like the idea of turning Release Candidate into a > marketing term in order to encourage more testing.
Correction: I meant Beta 2, not Beta 1. Scott K -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
