On releasing

[olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:17:03AM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote:

> People wdo appreciate if versions they pull have received sufficient
> soak time before they are declared to be a release.

Not every release is a stable release. You can perfectly well release
1.5.0 and declare it beta, and nobody has the right to expect any soak
time whatsoever. In fact, beta releases exist precisely to give that
"soak time". You can make any number of beta releases until you finally
decide that 1.5.7 is the first one that deserves to be called a stable
release. I don't see any problem here.

-antrik-