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What constitutes an Alpha-version?

Posted by Hemos on from the what-does-it-mean dept.

jacobm writes "An article went up on mozillazine.org yesterday in which the Mozilla team asks the community: what will it mean for Mozilla to be alpha? Probably a good question for everyone to think about, especially those of us who develop (or will develop) software for fun or profit. " Interesting question, especially when it comes to Mozilla. With M12 coming up, they are getting close to that stage, and have setup a criteria they think works. Do you agree?

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  1. Alpha, Beta...let's call the whole thing off. by Brian+Knotts · · Score: 5
    Isn't the whole alpha/beta/gamma thing kind of irrelevant when you're talking about open source software, anyhow? Open source software, by its nature, is always under development, and is always in the cycle of feature addition/bug fixing/etc.

    Seems to me that the Linux model of devel tree and stable tree is much more appropriate. When Mozilla is ready to start a stable branch (and it's getting fairly close), then I think that's what they should do.

    Leave the "alphas" and "betas" to the Netscape Communicator crew.


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