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Corfy
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 Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: Dumb question: What is the difference? |
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OK, I have a dumb question.
What exactly is the difference between a Beta version and a Release Candidate, and what are their relations to the final version?
And can I assume that the RC is still not ready for production use?
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DrewJensen
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I imagine each organization or community could have their own understanding of this.
However, I would say the comon expectation has been that a Beta is assumed to have a little unfished functionality(Not too much, that would be an Alpha) or untested implementations. In other words it is expected that the code is not ready for release.
A Release Candidate is expected to be ready for release unless something un-expected is found to be defective. Assuming nothing major and the RC will become the release.
At least that is my understanding of the process.
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multi-lingual_ooo
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| Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2005 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Dumb question: What is the difference? |
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| Quote: | | And can I assume that the RC is still not ready for production use? |
One of the ideas behind Release Candidates, is to give an enterprise a chance to install a couple of copies on systems in a limited production environment, to find flaws / issues / etc that might still be present. This also gives the enterprise a chance to determine how best to roll out a system wide upgrade.
If your platform has had a showstopper issue, then wait till that is fixed, before installing it on your system.
Otherwise go ahead and install it on a limited basis.
Most showstoppers are announced on the users list. You can find them all, by doing a search on issuezilla.
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