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- Subject: Re: (Devil's advocate:) 5.3 vs.5.2 vs. 5.1 vs. 5.0 releases
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 10:24:22 -0700
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Egor Skriptunoff
<egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
> <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>
>> > A "final" release to me means that it is "finalized". As in, it's a
>> > frozen release after all tests/release candidates.
>>
>> That's exactly how I've been using "final" and why I've chosen to use
>> "last" in the versions page...
>>
> Sorry, I'm not a native English speaker.
> The words "last" and "final" have multiple meanings, but none of the
> meanings are close to "we will not fix bugs there".
> Why not "abandoned" or "uncared-for"?
"Abandoned" carries a different meaning in the English-speaking software world.
"Final" does actually carry the meaning of "we will not fix bugs
there" though, because it carries the meaning of "there will be no
further releases."
/s/ Adam
