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

Gabor Hojtsy gabor at hojtsy.hu
Thu Dec 15 22:21:44 UTC 2005


Knite wrote:
> 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.

Hm, the beta is not supposed to be used in production environment. Beta
means that we know it has bugs.

Goba


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