Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 17:56:00 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: 'Juha Saarinen' <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: "'mupi@Mknet.org'" <mupi@Mknet.org>, "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Message-ID: <01C0FF32.6D3966E0.wmoran@iowna.com>
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On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:30 PM, Juha Saarinen [SMTP:juha@saarinen.org] wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In a company, alpha testing is done by the developers or other > > employees of the company, > > Once Upon A Time this was true, but no longer. Viz. Microsoft's > "Technology Preview" editions of various pieces of software. Due to > lengthening development cycles, companies feel compelled to issue some > pretty raw code into the public eye, just to show that they're actually > doing something. The mindshare game I guess. True, but I guess it still just seems to me that "alpha" is a closed-source kinda word that doesn't fit in with any open-source type of development. Might just be my perception of the whole thing. > Anyway, code never gets out of the beta stage. ;-) I don't know. I mean, "beta" says to me, "we, as developers, can't find any problems, but this hasn't been tested in the real world yet." Whereas a "release" tag says "we've tested this under real world conditions and have not found any problems" I see where you're coming from with that statement, though. Especially open-source development, which is always under scrutiny for the purpose of improvement. > Oh, and could you please wrap your lines? Yeah ... I just realized that the only way to keep Outlook from mangling lines is to manually wrap. I'm working on site this week, far away from my comfortable FreeBSD desktop workstation :-( so I'm stuck with Outlook. I think I'll install mutt on one of the servers here and use it to get my email via ssh ... :-) Don't tell my boss. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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