[General] Re: [Chandler-dev] Milestone and general naming, terminology

[Mike Taylor]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

> At 05:07 PM 8/29/2006 -0700, Ted Leung wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Katie Capps Parlante wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm. Ok, so Ted has been making this same argument.
>>>
>>> The term is less important to me than the concept. Of the terms you
>>> suggested Phillip, "Preview" sounds most appealing.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> If we have to have a label, then I would be fine with Preview, but
>> I'm not convinced that we need to attach the label directly to the
>> release.   We can talk about a Preview release in announcements and
>> blog posts, but that's different from having artifacts labeled
>> something like  Chandler_iosx_0.7Preview.dmg.
>
> Right, I should've been more explicit that this is what I meant.  
> "Preview" and the like would be *marketing* labels, not technical 
> ones.  The version number used on development artifacts should be just 
> plain old "0.7" for the final release of 0.7.

As a build/release person I can't tell you how hard/horrible/sad (pick 
any one of them) it is to deal with projects that use more than the 
basic 0.7.1 numbering scheme.

As Phillip points out, the marketing label can be anything.  I feel 
strongly that we should get back to basic numbering.

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