[RFC] Releases planning

[Martin Pool]

On 14 October 2010 01:55, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:

> IMO, calling it RC1 can be equivalent to beta4, but can also indicate to
> plugin authors, etc that we are ready for the final release.

The big difference is that calling it rc1 would imply we will make no
more changes other than critical bug fixes, whereas in practice it
seems ok to make safe non-api-breaking fixes to lower priority bugs
between the last beta and the .0.

> I guess the big difference is that an rc1 delays getting updates into
> stable out as final for a month?

I don't understand this sentence.

-- 
Martin