Announcing the release of Fedora 14 Beta!!

[Gordon Messmer]

On 09/29/2010 08:03 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Isn't that an odd thing to do?  I would have thought that the point of
> having different pre-final release versions, including release
> candidates, is to progressively improve the version ie reduce bugs - as
> it gets closer to a final release?

It's a common practice.  The name "release candidate" indicates that the 
package is deemed potentially suitable for release.  Testers check the 
RC for bugs that should block the release.  If any are found, those are 
fixed and a new RC is tested.  When no blocking bugs are found, the 
release candidate is published as the release.  If changes were made 
after the last RC, they'd be published without testing.  That would be 
bad. :)