Alpha Announcement

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 01:12:35PM -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul W. Frields" 
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> To: <fedora-docs-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Alpha Announcement
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>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 08:58:08AM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>> I've taken the Alpha announcement from F10 and morphed it[1] for F12.
>>> Please take a look at it and see what you can update.  This should be
>>> completed by COB tomorrow (Friday).
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Announcement_for_F12_Alpha_Release
>>
>> Keeping in mind that our previous Alpha releases ("Can we successfully
>> compose it?") were somewhat different than the current Alpha ("Should
>> be generally testable"), the content of this announcement may need to
>> change somewhat.  Here's the F11 Beta announcement for comparison:
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_Beta_Announcement
>>
>> Note the new Alpha is something more like previous Beta, and the new
>> Beta coming next month is more like previous Preview Release.
>
> I was thinking the same thing.  (Just getting caught up after broken 
> email). It is probably worth mentioning something like we have always 
> said rawhide is known to eat babies, with this new strategy we probably 
> don't know whether alpha will be more or less voracious.

The idea should be "less voracious than pre-Alpha Rawhide, or the
level of voracity in F11 Alpha."  Alpha in Fedora now means
essentially the same as industry-wide, in our case "feature-complete
and testable."  That means that Alpha is publicly testable, not by
just an anointed few.  Beta should now mean "code-complete and
(hopefully) as bug-free as possible."  We all know that bugs happen,
but Beta should be as close to a final release as humanly possible.

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