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[Heather Flanagan <>]

RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote:
> Sorry for getting overexcited on the call today, no offense intended.
>
> One thing occurred to me as we speculated about what might get 
> released when I became confused about "this one" and "next one".  I'm 
> a little uncomfortable with the usual alpha/beta terminology for this 
> product in particular, maybe because it's so much a packaging of other 
> things with their own versions.  I wondered whether following the 
> practice of projects like, well, Debian, with named releases might 
> both help the project focus on which-release-when and avoid the 
> implied readiness-for-use of alpha/beta.  So, for example, the project 
> could define features for the "Palindromic Panda" release with a 
> target of March 2009, and a future "Oleaginous Ocelot" release with a 
> target of Fall 2009 with other features.  Then a release could be 
> characterized as "only for testers" or "ready for COs" or similar.  
> Appealing?
>
>  - RL "Bob"

Hugely appealing, actually!  It both makes sense and appeals to my funny 
bone.  :-)

-hf