Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

Hi :)
It seems important to avoid terms that are familiar and in common usage in
other projects.  However maybe in the search for a better term we might
find something that other projects would also find preferable.

As a gateway application we often have to find answers to issues that other
OpenSource projects have never needed to think about.  It might be
interesting to see what is done by other gateway apps (such as Firefox,
Chrome, Gimp) or gateway distros such as Ubuntu, Mageia, openSuSE and
others have done.

Doubtless such discussion is more effective on the "Discussion mailing
list".  On this mailing list we just have to go along with whatever has
been decided, or to use our own words to make it clearer what is meant.
Personally i quite like "Fresh" or SliTaz's "Cooking" but i also think we
have not yet found anything to beat "stable" even though it's likely to
cause misconceptions.
Regards from
Tom :)






On 31 July 2014 11:26, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem is that it is difficult to find a word that explains that one
> version is new (with new features/bugs/regressions) and the other one has
> been patched so that new features are already stable.
>
> If you call Stable to the patched branch (and calling it Patched doesn't
> sound very nice either) seems to imply that the other branch (now called
> Fresh) isn't stable in the sense that it will crash and be unusable...
>
> There was a proposal to call the (previously named Stable and now named
> Still) branch as Mature. But since that word is currently associated with
> some sexual preference/deviation, it was dropped in favor of Still.
>
> It is easy to criticize and find problems, but it is more difficult to find
> a nice word that everyone accepts...
>
> Do you have a better suggestion?
>
> (For the record, I'm not a member of TDF or work for it and had no
> contribution to this decision)
>
>
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