My preference would be for beta release to get a symbolic tag in the CVS, and critical fixes could be made on a beta1 branch if needed. This is especially helpful if the time between beta releases is longer (like 2+ weeks) because it'd help us encourage people to beta test using the released beta (which has benefits of not being a moving target) , but not leave them completely high and dry in the face of security critical bugs, for example. Ken On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:30:22PM +0100, Dries Buytaert wrote:
On 14 Dec 2005, at 11:41, B?r Kessels wrote:
I am confused, I assumed beta 1 was just following head, in other words beta1 == head.
beta 1 is a snapshot of HEAD, taken 1-2 weeks ago. It is not updated automatically, although I could set it up such that the beta gets repackaged on a daily basis. At the moment, beta 1 lacks a number of important fixes.
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