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Jonas Sicking  
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 More options Jul 19 2007, 4:24 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:24:42 -0700
Local: Thurs, Jul 19 2007 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: Milestone Scheduling
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fantasai wrote:
> Mike Connor wrote:
>> Simon Paquet wrote:
>>> And on the seventh day Mike Schroepfer spoke:

>>>> Questions or Thoughts?

>>> Is a M-release the same as a alpha release?
>>> If yes, could you please call it an alpha as before, because the
>>> M-releases are still widely associated by people with releases before
>>> Mozilla 0.6.

>> They're not the same.   It is not clear at this time whether those
>> releases will be alphas or betas beyond M7, so calling them alphas
>> (i.e. alpha 8/9) is possibly inaccurate/misleading.  I think there's
>> very little likelihood of confusion here.  I suggested, for the
>> purpose of scheduling, to resurrect the M* numbering convention,
>> though we will publicly use alpha or beta versioning as appropriate.

> Can we use lower-case 'm's, then? The early M* scheme used capital Ms.
> This is also consistent with how we use lower-case for alphas and betas.
> An even clearer abbreviation would be e.g. 1.9m7.

This sounds like an excellent idea to me.

/ Jonas


 
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