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 More options Jul 19 2007, 12:36 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: fantasai <fantasai.li...@inkedblade.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:36:24 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jul 19 2007 12:36 pm
Subject: Re: Milestone Scheduling
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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.

~fantasai


 
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