Renaming the next beta to alpha2?

[Andreas Scherf]

Am Montag, 18. Juni 2007 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
> Am Monday 18 June 2007 schrieb Tom Albers:
> > Op zo 17 jun 2007 03:31 schreef u:
> > > On Sunday 17 June 2007, tomalbers at kde.nl wrote:
> > > > ok, the question is if we can deliver what a user expects from a
> > > > beta, a complete desktop with some small bugs.
> > >
> > > give me a moment to recover from laughing.
> > >
> > > whew.. ok. so. the question is whether the user expectations are
> > > unrealistic and we don't care or whether we should try and pander to
> > > these expectations.
> >
> > I'm a bit surprised this thread has not had any more reactions. I would
> > love to know what Sebas, Wade, Coolo, Dirk, David, Laurent, Pino and
> > others think.
>
> I don't care. There are as many definitions on what is alpha and what is
> beta as there are software projects. But I share the feeling alpha2 is more
> suitable.
Well i think, getting a bad echo at the moment won't help kde4 in the future.
Especially if i look back on Apples Safari lanch last week (the also named it 
beta ...) I vote for alpha2. 

Greetings, Andreas