Re: Release Engineering initiatives for the XEmacs project

mb> The second of three meanings. and ST> And I still think you should call it a "snapshot" (admittedly, ST> a well-tested highly reliable snapshot), not a "release" of ST> any kind. mb> Agreed. `beta' is our historical term. We used to have mb> `alpha's, too. OK. I suggest sticking to the historical usage ("beta") but with some verb other than "release", that will probably confuse fewer people. The "looks like the next release of the product" definition of "beta" probably isn't feasible in open source anyway. mb> [ST's "tinderbox"] is very ambitious. I thought so, too; I just took your advertising about automating the process at face value. mb> I think it would be much easier for the release engineer to mb> get accounts on 20 machines around the Net to do automated mb> testing herself. Aren't those last five words an oxymoron? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."