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

[Alan Dixon]

yes, this is what i love about open source. You'll definitely want to
catch walkah's drupalcon show:

http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/why-i-hate-drupal

more seriously, but isn't it at least honest and personal? Why do we
need to all have the same ideas about stability? If you're new to a
module, you need to try it out anyway. If you're got an alpha release,
then any bugs you find are your contribution to the project and
probably won't bring your site down (and i you're going to get excited
about your site maybe going down, then forget about the internet...).

join the party.

 - Alan

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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