2008/344 [ksh93 Integration Update 1 Amendments 1]

[Joseph Kowalski]

John Plocher wrote:
> Glenn Skinner wrote:
>>     (latin) alphabet for its version number, e.g.  version 'a',
>>     version 'b' etc.  ; the '+'/'-' means the stabilty status, e.g.
>>     '-' means its "alpha", no suffix means its "stable" (e.g.  ready
>>     for production usage) and '+' means its a bugfixed stable version
>>     etc.).
>>
>> Are we to infer from this nomenclature description that ksh's
>> stability level is decreasing as part of this case?
>
> I think there may be a definition overload here:
>
>   stability(ARC)     => interface evolution over time
>      -vs-
>   stability(AST/KSH) => quality and bug levels
>
> I don't believe the interface taxonomy stability levels
> are changing at all, but the implied "quality of the release"
> metric is.
>
>   -John
Right.  Its like the common even/odd release numbers commonly used in 
FOSS.  One such community using this convention is Gnome.  We simply 
don't integrate odd number releases of Gnome.

- jek3