Beman Dawes wrote:
By definition, the last release is always considered stable. Stable doesn't mean perfect, it just means good enough to build upon.
OK, but that isn't what I understood from your description:
The definition of stable includes passing all regression tests on release-critical compilers (or marked up accordingly), and also passing all other stability measurements. If a library depends on other libraries, it is only stable if those libraries are stable.
Stability criteria include not only regression test failures, but also inspection failures, tool-chain errors, configuration errors, missing files, and any other detectable errors that reduce release quality or impact development environment stability.
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