Julian Foad wrote:
> Two comments.
>
> Recent release candidate announcements have said:
>
>> The term 'release candidate' means the Subversion developers feel that
>> this release is stable and ready for production use, so we encourage
>> people to test this release thoroughly.
>
> I wonder if, in our drive to avoid premature distribution, the words
> "feel that [...] ready for production use" could be misinterpreted. We
> rely on people reading on and allowing the next paragraph to temper
> their optimism:
>
>> we do not feel that it is ready
>> for packaging and providing to end-users [...]
>> our policy lets us break compatibility between the
>> release candidate and the final release
>
> Suggested replacement for the first paragraph:
>
> The term 'release candidate' means the Subversion developers feel that
> this release is stable and know of no reason why it would not be fit for
> production use, and it now needs testing by a wider audience. If this
> testing confirms its readiness, this candidate version will become the
> final released version. Therefore we encourage people to test this
> release thoroughly.
>
> Or something like that.
>
>
> Further on, an improvement to some text that will also be relevant in
> the final release announcement:
>
>> [...] Using Subversion 1.5.0-alpha2
>> on any working copy created by previous versions of Subversion will
>> TRANSPARENTLY upgrade your working copy, which means that
>> production-ready
>> versions of Subversion will no longer be able to read it! [...]
>
> The relevance of "alpha2" and meaning of "production-ready versions" is
> not clear.
>
> Suggested relacement:
>
> [...] Using this version on any working copy created by Subversion
> 1.4 or earlier (or development versions earlier than 1.5.0-alpha2) will
> TRANSPARENTLY upgrade your working copy, which means that those earlier
> versions of Subversion will no longer be able to read it! [...]
>
> (I'm not completely sure if "earlier than alpha2" is actually what it
> meant... Please verify for me :-)
Yeah, that was a copy-pasto which slipped into the announcement
unintentionally. It should have been 1.5.0-rc5, or whatever the current
release was. That said, the text could probably be better phrased.
-Hyrum
Received on 2008-05-16 16:35:58 CEST