[DUG-TO] What constitutes "stable"? (was Re: Simple photo gallery setup)

[Evan Leibovitch]

Lynna Landstreet wrote:
> Image 6.x may be alpha in theory, but in my experience it's more solid
> than the official releases of some modules I can think of.
>   

I agree, but sometimes the inconsistency of status can be
nerve-wracking. One developer's "alpha" is another's "stable". Other
examples include "Event" and "Taxonomy Access Control", two fairly
important modules which appear to work fine but are still listed by
their developers as being not yet suitable for use in 6.X.

If there's no reasonably-understood idea of what constitutes "good
enough" quality of a release, how is a casual implementor to really know
the stability of a module without having to try it themselves? And if
every user needs to test every module for stability, then what's the
point of the red/green listings anyway?

- Evan