On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:24:18 -0600 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Gerhard Brauer <gerbra@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:13:57 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be>:
Good point Gerhard about being more clear in the news. Could someone with priviliges do a little update of the news item?
I mean not for this release, for the next releases (ex. 2009.04). News on heise, linuxmagazin or whatelse are already written, even when we would change our new now...
Yeah, "going forward" we have to make it more apparent that this is not a "release" - perhaps we should change the wording to something like "2009.04 Installer" instead of "2009.04 Release" or something. Working the word "snapshot" in there would be a good idea too
I don't care whether some news reporter uses the word release or snapshot, as long as our _users_ know how we work. Imho we should just make it clear in several places (eg download page, beginners guide etc), so we can keep using the word "release". (are really that many users confused now? I have no insight on that) Sure we have a rolling release model, but still our isos/img's are definitely not "just" a snapshot: - they are planned - we work "towards" them and provide support afterwards - we do a core freeze a while before, and during the release. - they are carefully tested. - we time releases of other packages/tools to "fit" in the iso release scheme (eg installer) - ... Imho the word "snapshot" doesn't do much justice to our images and makes it sound like just that, a snapshot. Most likely if we start using the word "snapshot" people new to Arch might be more hesitant to try it out because it doesn't sound like something well tested/engineered/supported. Which may be a bigger problem then what we have now. Think about it. Dieter