Re: [off topic] Slashdot announce 2.0beta2
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
> I needed to create some new CD images, because enough new bug fixes had hit
> the archive to make it worthwhile, and if I do that I have to differentiate
> the versions somehow: hence a directory name of 2.0beta1 for the first lot,
> and 2.0beta2 for the second.
[snip]
> That said, it seems reasonable to say that Debian 2.0 is into it's second phase
> of testing. It's just that there wasn't an ``official'' delineation between
> 2.0beta and 2.0beta2 (except by me choosing a particular moment to freeze my
> mirror)
Why not date the betas? I think everyone knows what is happening when you
do this, and they aren't left wondering when the heck beta2 came out when
the name is 2.0-beta-1998-7-9.
Just a thought,
Brandon
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