Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [SilverBinaries] (new) Help test Axiom Silver

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> | What we have is like Debian.
> | 
> | Gold = stable
> | Silver = unstable
> | Bronze = testing
>
> many of my students were scared by the name "unstable" and did not
> want to touch it.  I don't think they are unique in that respect.
>
> I know that for GCC, for example, we call mainline, "experimental" -- not
> "unstable".  Personally, I would prefer to reserve the "negative"
> sounding "unstable" to branches like "build-improvements" -- which
> really can be very unstable :-)

I just wanted to follow the naming conventions of a big project like 
Debian. I quite believe that people who use Debian unstable all well 
aware that things could break. Anyway "unstable" does not have such a 
bad conotation for Debian. Am I wrong?

If we call Silver = experimental that is not very different from 
"testing". If you can come up with anthing better, you're welcome.

A suggestion could even be... drop "stable", "unstable", "testing" and 
just call the branches Gold, Silver, Bronze with a definition of what 
they are and the understanding that there is just ONE Gold and ONE 
Silver but many Bronze branches.

Ralf