[development] Security releases and the update status module

[Earl Miles]

Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
> In general, I don't have a strong feeling about whether or not certain
> strings like 'beta' in the "official release" should be allowed or
> prevented.  Drupal project page itself does that, but it is a special
> case.  Views did this for a while but I believe that Earl now regrets
> that.

What I regret was that -beta showed up as an official release in earlier 
versions of Update Status due to the way the information was bundled. 
We've since rectified this, but it took a lot of work.

Since this is the second time you've brought this up -- and this time 
after I corrected you last time -- please stop using this mis-informed 
example. What you're implying is not the case.