[ANN] bzr 2.3b1 released ! (bzr-beta-ppa updated; some plugins uninstallable)

[Martin Pool]

On 25 September 2010 04:15, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> Did we actually decide to release the HEAD snapshots as betas?  As I
>> recall, that happened just by a quirk of the first snapshot when we
>> started maintaining stable branches, and was acknowledged as a "ooh,
>> that's not QUITE right, but we started it so keep it up for this
>> release" at the time.  To me, "beta" implies something much more
>> closely akin to "wind-down to release" than the monthly dev snapshot
>> that we're cutting...
>
> I'm pretty sure we decided "we don't want to do extra work to release
> the betas", so yes, HEAD at the time we snapshot it == 2.XbY.

I think so too.

I think 'beta' is a reasonable name for our releases from trunk.  They
are not experimental and they are stable for regular use but they are
also going to change before getting to a finally supported state.

-- 
Martin