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I always use these labels, but one badge I oftentimes find needed but absent here is work in progress badge. Factually that is a status of project, indicating that it is too early to use it.
@Potherca the difference is that WIP oftentimes is not ready to be used and going to be finished, like under construction, whereas experimental is proof of concept, i. e. finished to some extent.
For example font-atlas is finished but experimental, whereas audio is work in progress - not ready to be used at all, but planning to be somewhat stable.
@dfcreative Thanks for elaborating! I can see the difference between "WIP" and "Experimental".
I still have trouble grokking the difference between "WIP" and "Unstable".
To quote Robert Burns:
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley
In other words, regardless whether a project might at some point become stable, while work is underway it is not stable.
To my mind, WIP = Unstable (Although not all Unstable project are necessarily WIP). It might just boil down to my perspective that "Unstable" expresses the intent to (someday) become "Stable".
(I hope you don't mind my attempt to better understand the difference. Project life-cycle/stages is a topic that genuinely fascinate me. Enough to have made my own attempt at a definition).
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dy commentedon Jul 21, 2016
Yeah, now I do like that. I hoped it may become a more recognizable status badge, because factually it is.
Potherca commentedon Feb 7, 2017
This might merely be a difference in definitions, but why not use "Experimental" or "Unstable" for "work-in-progress"?
To me they would both indicate "too early to use"...
dy commentedon Feb 7, 2017
@Potherca the difference is that WIP oftentimes is not ready to be used and going to be finished, like under construction, whereas experimental is proof of concept, i. e. finished to some extent.
For example font-atlas is finished but experimental, whereas audio is work in progress - not ready to be used at all, but planning to be somewhat stable.
Potherca commentedon Feb 7, 2017
@dfcreative Thanks for elaborating! I can see the difference between "WIP" and "Experimental".
I still have trouble grokking the difference between "WIP" and "Unstable".
To quote Robert Burns:
In other words, regardless whether a project might at some point become stable, while work is underway it is not stable.
To my mind, WIP = Unstable (Although not all Unstable project are necessarily WIP). It might just boil down to my perspective that "Unstable" expresses the intent to (someday) become "Stable".
(I hope you don't mind my attempt to better understand the difference. Project life-cycle/stages is a topic that genuinely fascinate me. Enough to have made my own attempt at a definition).
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