stable vs. latest

Egmont Koblinger egmont at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 15:05:19 UTC 2013


Hi guys,

I notified the maintainer of distrowatch.org, asked him to update the
regexps that figure out the latest stable mc release.

He told me - and unfortunately I can only agree with him - that the wording
on MC's homepage is very confusing.  It mentions two releases, "latest" and
"latest stable", people would obviously think that the "latest" refers to
unstable.  The comment that tries to clarify the situation is more
confusing rather than clarifying, how come you recommend not to use the
stable?

He insist - and again, I cannot disagree with it - that his page promotes
the latest *stable* of all software.  Given mc's new development model and
the wording used right now, he would stick with 4.8.1.7 forever.

Could you please reconsider the terminology, or the contents current
homepage?

E.g. you might begin to call the current releases 'stable', e.g. 4.8.8 is
the first stable of the 4.8.x series.

Or, you might want to remove the former stable 4.1.8.7 from the main
homepage and keep it only in the Downloads section.  Or something like
this...

Thanks a lot,
egmont



On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 2013-02-21 13:42 (GMT+0400) Andrew Borodin composed:
>
>
>  On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:33:02 +0100 Egmont Koblinger wrote:
>>
>
>  Andrew:  Is it that soon there will be a 4.9.1.x stable and 4.9.x devel
>>> series?
>>>
>>
>  No, not soon. 4.8.x series is still continued. 4.9 should be well stable,
>> without major and annoying defects and with some major features.
>>
>
> Above response leaves me quite confused. :-(
>
>
>  Or you give up this development model and stick to a single branch
>>> from now on?
>>>
>>
>  Yep.
>>
>
> You mean eventually there will be only one version instead of two?
>
>
>  If the latter, I think it should be made obvious on the
>>> homepage (maybe when 4.8.8 is released), and the "Our release workflow"
>>> page should also be updated.
>>>
>>
>  Yes, certainly.
>>
>
> My original thread starter question hasn't really been answered yet. Who
> is the 4.8.1.x branch for, since it seems major distro's latest releases
> are using 4.8.x, with openSUSE that doesn't even release using latest in
> 4.8.1.x line the only exception I'm aware of?
>
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