I think the last time I looked into it there was nothing in the scripts that forced anything, but if that's not true I think we should be fixing that, not having it drive our release decisions.
Kind Regards, Brandon On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 at 19:27, J. D. Jordan <jeremiah.jor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That said. This is clearly better than and with many fixes from the alpha. >> Would people be more comfortable if this cut was released as another alpha >> and we do beta1 once the known fixes land? > > > > There is no way with our release process to do this. The QA label is part of > our version number and that's baked in. > > Otherwise I entirely agree that alpha2 would have been the better label here. > We are working in an unusual situation, one I hope we don't repeat. >