New release "layout": no more alpha, no more RC, just beta

[Cyrille Berger]

Hi,

As a reminder, our current layout is:
Week 0 -> tag alpha
Week 3 -> branch and tag beta
Week 6 -> tag RC
Week 9 -> tag final

After some discussions, it has been suggested to do the following 
layout:

Week 3 -> branch and tag beta 1
Week 6 -> tag beta 2
Week 9 -> tag final

The rational was that alpha are just snapshots, probably not worth much 
and still require some work (especially in the marketing department). As 
for RCs, the rational was that it is not very understandable what a "RC" 
is, while beta is a much wider acknowledge term for "not stable (and 
might kill kittens)", the second thing is that the version label is part 
of the tag, and once the tarballs are given for packaging it is a bit 
tricky to change the version, which might be a bit iky if we discover a 
severe bug between tagging and actual release.

So anyone has any object to the new layout, with no alpha, and two 
betas and one final ?

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Cyrille Berger Skott