[ANN] bzr-2.5b3 has gone gold !

[Martin Pool]

On 14 November 2011 04:26, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 02:34:17PM +1100 I heard the voice of
> Ben Finney, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> +1. I really do wish that things-which-are-not-releases (alpha,
>> beta, release candidate, etc.) not be announced as “released” or
>> “gold”. It's confusing, and dilutes the meaning of those terms.

I think we can call that settled.

> And while I get an excuse to do this, I do still we'd we'd dump
> "beta".  By any lifecycle terminology I know, beta implies something
> winding down to a release, in at least a feature slush.
>
> These aren't betas, they're dev snapshots.  AIR, it was sheer accident
> that 2.1b1 (or was it 2.0?  Whichever was the first branch that got
> the 6-month-cycle treatment) got called 'beta' instead of snapshot,
> and that was intended to be remedied next time around...

I think 'beta' means something in between a snapshot (like a nightly
build) and a final release, and that's pretty much what they are.  As
John discussed above, there are people who would not run a snapshot
who can reasonably run betas.

Calling the early ones alphas because we expect to do more development
before tagging a .0 release would imply they are less stable than they
are.  The level of quality is pretty steady across all the betas.

-- 
Martin