New 1.14 RC date?

[Ben Finney]

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu at gmail.com> writes:

> This hardly lists all possibilities. In this same thread, an example
> was mentioned:
> 
>  3. A (well-meaning) developer or power-user says in IRC "try this
> format, it will help you solve problem X".

And, since the obvious response is “teach the developers and
power-users not to do that then”, the above scenario is
indistinguishable (for the newbie) from:

  3.a. A well-meaning developer or power-user says *something* in IRC,
  and the newbie in a hurry invokes the functionality that should not
  be invoked, whether or not that was what the instructions said to
  do.

I argue (oh boy, do I ever :-) that this mistake is far too easy if
the functionality is actually there in a stable release for the newbie
to use.

> I'm somewhat opposed to dev-formats in *stable* releases, because I
> think they belong in development or beta releases.
> 
> I'm more opposed to delaying a scheduled stable release to introduce
> beta-quality software (the very fact that the release has to be
> delayed speaks volumes about the state of the beta software).

Yes.

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Ben Finney