Re: [Phpwiki-talk] How usable is the Alpha version

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Steven Murdoch wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Perhaps an option that could be considered is that one of the nightly
> builds could be taken as a "testing release" (like Debian) before the large
> changes go in. It would still be considered unstable, but would give
> inexperienced users like me something that would have most of the features
> of the alpha version but more stable than the future nightly builds. It is
> only a suggestion so feel free to ignore it.

Yes, something along the lines of a 1.3.1 release has been on my mind.
We're at a good point to do this. (The 1.3 branch is "developmental", and
when we finish we will release version 1.4, like the Linux kernel does.
i.e. even numbered releases are stable, odd numbered releases are
experimental.)

~swain

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