[cut-team] Bikeshedding alternate names for "testing"

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:06:55AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> If we can rename "testing" (which is a truly bad name, in my
> opinion), we should call it "next". Debian would be similar to the
> Linux kernel and lots of other projects that way, and the name would
> also make sense.
<snip>
> Hopefully not-too-offtopicly yours,

Well, I think it is indeed OT here :-) Don't worry, I don't care about
OT-ness that much, but this is offers a good plug to say that here we
are trying to do one thing — CUT — and to do it right. I understand that
discussing CUT can easily lead to other exciting topics such as the
purpose of backports/volatile, how the whole idea (or name) of testing
rocks/sucks, etc. But this list is not the place in which we can fix
everything, or at least not all of it at once :)

That notwithstanding, I agree with your criticism, as discussed at
DebConf10. So let's try to learn from it and choose a good name for what
we are doing here. If it pays out, it might then become an incentive to
change the "testing" name.

Cheers.

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