On Wed, January 25, 2006 10:51 am, Dries Buytaert said:
All bugs marked critical are considered to be release stoppers. These are all bugs that render certain functionality unusable in such a way you can no longer accomplish a certain task (no work arounds). There is little point in debating the term 'critical' or adding a second 'critical'.
Something else to consider: Would calling it RC instead of beta increase the number of people playing with it and testing it? Calling something a beta version scares off some potential users/testers/bugfinders. Lots of bugs just aren't found until hundreds of people use something rather than dozens. Of course, maybe we still want to scare off non-developers at the moment. I'll leave that decision to someone else; I'm just pointing out a likely side effect. --Larry Garfield