Mike,
that's a great idea. I for one would happily change from a fingernail- 
biting "nightly" user to an excited "preview" user.
But I just want to say thanks for your careful work. I haven't updated  
my nightly often, but it has never left me stuck and unable to deploy  
a new version of my live customer applications.
Regards
Thomas
On 01/03/2008, at 8:32 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>> Apologies... stable.equals(nightly), stable != nightly.  So yes, at  
>> this instant (well not anymore, because i committed to nightly  
>> already), stable is the same as nightly, but stable is stable, and  
>> will be for a while.  Stable was stable for 8 months before this,  
>> it's just that Leopard sort of ruined messed everything up.
> I'm thinking there should be a "stable," "preview," and "nightly"  
> build.  "stable" would be where everyone who just likes things to  
> "work the work they work" can use.  People who like cool new  
> features, but don't want TOTALLY broken stuff can update off of  
> "preview," and "nightly" is like dudes chasing oiled pigs.  This new  
> classpath stuff is a good example.  I actually have mostly working  
> patches for a large part of it, so I can commit that to nightly, get  
> it integrated, promote it to preview for daring folks (who still  
> need to get work done) can update from and work with it.  If there  
> are any issues, they can always go back down to stable, but I can  
> still continue to add riskier features on nightly.
>
> ms
>
>
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