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Retire?

On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Digant C Kasundra wrote:

> What do we do when we get to X?  :)
>
> ----- "Heather Flanagan" 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> --
> Digant C Kasundra 
> <>
> Technical Lead, ITS Unix Systems and Applications, Stanford University