[Bf-committers] 2.5 release

[Erwin Coumans]

>> Could someone explain me if common meanings of terms are going to
>> matter in future or not?

That's what I wonder too, especially after Ton silenced the discussion
of using the common term 'morph targets' instead of shape keys etc.

alpha, beta, release candidates are described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

So I think the Blender would be an alpha release, according to this,
because it lacks features planned for the final 2.5 release.

Cheers,
Erwin





2009/11/18 GSR <gsr.b3d at infernal-iceberg.com>

> Hi,
> antont at kyperjokki.fi (2009-11-18 at 0918.54 +0200):
> > Knapp kirjoitti:
> > > Agreed, as beta, is fine to release it but without all the planed
> > > buttons? I have never seen that before on a beta.
> > >
> >
> > One definition of alpha and beta I've heard is:
> > * alpha is when you're still missing features, have known bugs. often
> > not that interesting for end users, but has things that work.
> > * beta is when you are kind of feature complete, and don't have loads of
> > known bugs / missing things - but those are expected to be found in the
> > wide user involving beta testing, before release candidates
> >
> > Based on that it would be normal to have missing buttons and stuff in an
> > alpha, but not in a beta which should start to look like the final
> > thing. I've no idea whether this is a common conception, just something
> > that was used in one project (probably the lead there got it from
> > literature) and which has seemed to make sense to me since.
>
> I thought it was clear that definitions mattered nothing in Blender
> land after releasing RCs that add features on top of previous
> RCs... that or RC in Blender does not mean what is the common
> expansion for the acronym: release candidate. Which would be an issue
> too.
>
> Could someone explain me if common meanings of terms are going to
> matter in future or not?
>
> GSR
>
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