[Libreoffice-qa] LibO 3.5.0 Beta 0 First assessment

[Michael Stahl]

On 03/12/11 18:27, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Michael Meeks wrote (03-12-11 15:50)
> 
>> 	Yes ! we have not branched yet; master will branch at the
>> feature-freeze before B1 so we have:
>>
>> master -------- Beta0 -------\----------- crazy stuff ...
>>                                \
>>                                 \----- Beta1 --- stabilisation - Beta2
>>
>> 	etc. :-
> 	
> Correct. While explaining the whole event to someone else, suddenly it 
> became clear to me it might be much clearer when we have another naming 
> scheme:
> 
> master ----- Alpha1 -------\----------- crazy stuff ...
>                              \
>                               \----- Alpha2 --- stabilisation - Beta1
> 
> The great advantage of this is, that people having some expectation on 
> what a beta1 is, will not be disappointed.
> Also, the whole schedule will not change, only the naming will be 
> conform what people get offered.
> Will be something that marketing is going to praise us for, isn't it?

sounds most reasonable to me; i'd say that that calling some random
revision on the dev branch that happens to build on all platforms a
"beta0" is rather bad communication  :)