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Introducing the Canary Release Channel

• Buetol 12y ago
  IMHO, a more explicit naming scheme like "Stable/Unstable" would be better to not confuse the user.
  • junto 12y ago
    Maybe they are trying to subtly tell us that they have had an NSL or have been forced to put in a backdoor by the NSA. Warrant canary? Thpugh more than likely it was just a poor choice of name!
    • yurisagalov 12y ago
      We're actually just borrowing from the phrase "canary in the coal mine" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sentinel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sentinel Google Chrome uses a similar convention (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html), as do many other companies when talking about unstable/nightly/etc. builds (simply google 'canary build' to verify :)
      • steveklabnik 12y ago
        Ember also uses the 'canary' nomenclature.