Re: PRE releases

Hi,

At 10:16 PM 2/10/99 +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>I've noticed quite a few people reporting problems with 2.2 PREn releases,
>and I strongly suspect a lot of them don't know that the PRE means that it
>may not be reliable.

Yes.

>Perhaps the squid web page could put some more warnings on the download
>pages for pre-releases that they should wait for the RELEASE version if they
>want something stable.

That sounds logical to me. I gather that people are a bit too keen to
deploy "pre" releases on production machines.

Perhaps a small point, but people get used to "beta" for non production
software - using PRE could be taken to mean to be more suitable than beta -
even though I understand from what I've read that there is no difference
except the wording:)

Against this though, the more people that try pre release software, the
more effectively it can be debugged. If noone deploys prerelease software
then it could be released with just as many bugs as a prerelease version
itself :)

Reuben
Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 16:31:57 MST