[arch-general] Rename 'unstable' to 'developing'

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu May 1 06:23:55 EDT 2008


gan lu wrote:
> As we know, many packages saying even firefox or openoffice in unstable repo
> don't mean "unstable", instead, they are quite stable. The name of repo
> simply doesn't reflect the fact, so how about a rename?
> It's harmless and may even bring some good point, at least from a marketing
> point, it may courage more devs or TUs to follow the upstream developing and
> put more packages there, in return attract more people who are interested in
> the package to do more (testing) work, which can eventually make the package
> better quality.
> Just my 2 cents.
> 

http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-April/005870.html

I vote for simply dropping that repo.




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