[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Beta RC1 Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 13:19 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On 4/8/11 12:14 PM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> >> Its the way we do it.
> > F13 is the earliest mention I can find mention of "Beta RC" on
> > devel-list.  But that doesn't really change the validity of my
> > statement.  It's confusing, and we should change it.
> 
> This is fair criticism.  I believe I'm the one that started referring to 
> these composes as "release candidates" more vocally.  We needed a way to 
> reference the succession of attempted composes for a release point, be 
> it Alpha, Beta, or GA.  Calling them release candidates made sense to 
> me, however I can see how they could be confusing.
> 
> Would it make more sense to refer to these as "Alpha Candidate", "Beta 
> Candidate" and "Release Candidate" ?  ac{1,2,3}, bc{1,2}, rc1  ?
> 
> It does mean the name will change at each stage, but it should be more 
> descriptive as to what stage we're in.
> 
> Thoughts?

works for me.
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