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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:17:00 -0000
From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
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Il 11/06/2012 11:18, Richard Guenther ha scritto:
> > Instead of renaming Stage 3 to Stage 2 at that point we figured that
> > using different terminology would reduce confusion.  I am not wedded
> > to Stage A and B, though this seems to be the most straightforward
> > option (over colors, Alpha and Beta carrying a different meaning in
> > software development,...).
> >
> Eh - why not give them names with an actual meaning? "Development Stage"
> and "Stabilizing Stage"?  I realize those are rather long names, but you
> can always put short forms in tables, like Dev Stage and Stab Stage.

Or just "Development" and "Feature freeze"?

Paolo