Ray Saintonge wrote:
The issue of having multiple stable versions seems
different from how
stability is determined. If version A is stable there should be a
simpler routine to follow when a new version that has only such minor
differences is made stable. But then I could also as: "why version A
was considered stable if it had spelling mistakes?"
I hope that's not a serious question. :)
Humans are fallible. In the real world, some mistakes will make it all the way
to the printers', despite multiple reviews and proofreads. When somebody finally
catches them (after you've got a room full of boxes ready to ship out to
schools), you mark them down for reference and fix them in the next printing.
A stable-marked wiki page of course is faster to fix than a printed pamphlet or
book, since you can declare a new version stable at any time instead of waiting
until the 10,000 copies you printed up are used.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)