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Re: Renaming Stage 1 and Stage 3
- From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- To: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:16:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Renaming Stage 1 and Stage 3
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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