[development] confused: beta-1 release != head?

[James Walker]

On 12/14/05 7:52 AM, Tim Altman wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:30:22 +0100, Dries Buytaert 
> <dries.buytaert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 14 Dec 2005, at 11:41, Bèr 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.
> 
> I'd prefer that TAR files always remain static snapshots and not update 
> automatically.  When we talk about 4.7 beta 1, we know what state the 
> code is in.  If it's a moving target, it's much harder to tell if 
> something is a new problem or existed when the release was first created.

+1

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