full-disclosure - lame bitching about xpsp2 (will it ever stop ?)

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From: toddtowles at brookshires.com (Todd Towles)
Subject: lame bitching about xpsp2 (will it ever stop ?)

Functionlity issue is true, yet to add functionlity you must add more
lines of code. Beta programs are there to debug code therefore it is
understood to have less reliability. 

Both stages are for debugging code but during beta they are adding fresh
code that hasn't been looked over for bugs. During RC, the fresh code
has been debugged a couple of times and therefore should be reliability.

Just my 2c

-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of
allan.vanleeuwen@...ngemail.nl
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:15 AM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] lame bitching about xpsp2 (will it ever
stop ?)

Official standpoint from M$ on beta/RC naming:

Beta releases do not necessarilly contain same functionality as the
final release RC DOES contain same functionality as final release (no
more functionality changes are planned)

So it's not a question of reliability but functionality ...

Just my 2c

-----Original Message-----
From: Jos Osborne [mailto:Jos@...temi.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 3:51 PM
To: Raymond; Nick Eoannidis
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] lame bitching about xpsp2

>Release candidates are not beta's. That's why beta's are called beta's 
>and releasecandidates releasecandidates.
>
>Eventhough, beta's should already have a certain reliability, since 
>beta means: ready for a scheduled releasetime. That is even more so for

>releasecandidates because (yes:) they are releasecandidates.

So they'd be Gamma's?

Jos

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