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Community Projects => The FreeSpace Upgrade Project => Topic started by: Darklord42 on February 15, 2006, 12:15:26 pm

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Darklord42 on February 15, 2006, 12:15:26 pm

forgive my newness to the system but wich one is newer 3.6.8 Beta or 3.6.8 gamma?

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Mongoose on February 15, 2006, 02:06:35 pm

I'm assuming that it's Gamma, since gamma comes after beta in the Greek alphabet. :p

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: CP5670 on February 15, 2006, 02:38:19 pm

lol :D

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: StratComm on February 15, 2006, 03:27:28 pm

There were already a delta set released, so we appear to be diverging from Greek lexographic ordering.  They are just Gamma because it sounds cool, I guess.

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Mongoose on February 15, 2006, 03:31:58 pm

Quote from: StratComm on February 15, 2006, 03:27:28 pm

There were already a delta set released, so we appear to be diverging from Greek lexographic ordering.  They are just Gamma because it sounds cool, I guess.

Wait...so Gamma is newer than Delta? Whose idea was that? :p

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 15, 2006, 09:18:02 pm

I was trying to go in the order that fs2_open wings go in...

Methinks a letter change may be in order.

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: StratComm on February 16, 2006, 02:42:03 pm

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.  Always has been that way ;)

Gamma is, after all, analogous to the Latin 'C'.  At least you'd have gotten the next one right.

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 16, 2006, 06:37:52 pm

Forgotten the alphabet, WMCoolmon has. How embarassing, how embarassing...

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Darklord42 on February 16, 2006, 08:28:17 pm

well I know that Gama comes after beta in the greek alphabet. its just that ive known programs where they go in the opposite direction in the development, inwich case beta would be the closest to the release and some thing like gama would be like a first test of a pice of software

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Mongoose on February 16, 2006, 11:06:46 pm

Quote from: StratComm on February 16, 2006, 02:42:03 pm

Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.  Always has been that way ;)

Gamma is, after all, analogous to the Latin 'C'.  At least you'd have gotten the next one right.

Actually, to be technical, Gamma is transliterated to the Latin "G."  There is no Greek equivalent for "C;" the hard sound is covered by Kappa, and the soft sound falls under Sigma.  See, that quarter of Greek during my Latin class in high school really did turn out to be useful! :p

Title: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Mehrpack on February 17, 2006, 10:09:06 am

Quote from: Darklord42 on February 16, 2006, 08:28:17 pm

well I know that Gama comes after beta in the greek alphabet. its just that ive known programs where they go in the opposite direction in the development, inwich case beta would be the closest to the release and some thing like gama would be like a first test of a pice of software

hi,
like backslash has say, frist is alpha, then beta in software development.

but befor alpha came often use the software engineer pre-alpha.
thats a very early version of the software, there are not all componets included and the programm is very unstable.
in the alpha is the most part of the final software included but not all.

first in the beta all included and the final bugfixing begin.

but today the programmer use instead the normal closed beta prozess the Release Canidate or Community Preview.
both are not the same like the traditional closed beta, the community can work with the software and find errors.
so are the user more included in the software devolpoment.

Mehrpack

Title: Re: 3.6.8 Naming scheme
Post by: Darklord42 on February 17, 2006, 02:28:48 pm

I see, btw thanks for moving this moderators i was begining to feel pretty bad that I lead evreything so off topic previously. in the future just ignore me :D