On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 1:05 PM Heiko Adams <ml@fedora-blog.de> wrote:

Am Mittwoch, den 11.10.2017, 07:53 -0700 schrieb Gerald B. Cox:
By definition BETA software is never intended to be pushed to stable. Fx 57 is BETA. When the STABLE version is released, then it can go into updates-testing. Not before. Again, that is the purpose of RAWHIDE.
Does this mean it's also not allowed to push packaged git-snapshots of a software to updates-testing because they are unreleased and potentially unstable?

I think Gerald's position is overstating it. Upstream's definition of what is "beta" or "stable" is informative but not definitive.

However, in this particular case, the maintainer has stated that this version of the package is *not* intended to actually go to the stable Fedora repository, which says to me that it should not be in the updates-testing stream at all. The point of u-t is to be a last-chance check on the quality before it goes out to all users. It's not intended to be a prototyping location; that's one of COPR's jobs.