terminology and the hierarchy of releases

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:16:08PM -0500 or thereabouts, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Will Backman wrote:
> 
> > before.  Wait until next text release, repeat.  This would prevent
> > upgrades from FC1 -> FC2rc1 -> FC2rc2 ->FC2rc3.
>  
> it's already understood that you can't upgrade *from* a test release
> to any later release.

And people still do it every single time. Even on a list where
everyone knows the result is unsupported. I think such a list is
the exception rather than the rule, too.

Telsa