- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:01:54 +0100 (WEST)
- To: Irene Vatton <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- cc: charles@w3.org, jcsantos@fc.up.pt, www-amaya@w3.org
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Irene Vatton wrote:
>
> The announce message was "[Announcement] Amaya 8.6 Snapshot" and=20
> it's listed as a Snapshot everywhere.
> For me it was clear that it could not be considered as a stable version.
best to be explicit about this, though. It could have been the
latest snapshot of a release with recent fixes backported into it.
> Perhaps the confusion is due to its name 8.6.
>
> We plan also to make a pre-release 2 weeks before the 8.7 release.
> Do we have to call it 8.6+ or 8.7.pre or what else?
8.7.pre is better, IMHO.
You could adopt the convention used by
Yukihiro Matsumoto for developing Ruby: odd minor versions are
unstable, even ones are stable.
>
> Regards
> Irene.
Hugh
Received on Monday, 4 October 2004 09:02:39 UTC