OpenEuphoria

Re: pre-alpha, alpha, beta

• Posted by CoJaBo <cojabo at suscom.net> Jun 12, 2004
• 404 views

I think:
Pre-Alpha: Very early testing stage
Alpha: Early testing stage/ Greek letter
Beta: Testing stage/ Greek letter


Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> 
> On freshmeat --> browse --> development status,
> there is a list of 6 stages of development of a project.
> Among them are:
> 
> 2 - Pre-Alpha
> 3 - Alpha
> 4 - Beta
> 
> There seems to be no explanation on freshmeat of what these mean,
> nothing in the FAQ, etc.
> 
> Is there an exact meaning of these 3 terms?
> 
> If I have a project that seems to work but needs more testing to be sure
> that it works, which stage is it in?
> (Specifically this project is the Linux version of "Anagram Quiz Program".
> You can find it on user contributions by searching "anagram".)
>