Another suggestion : instead of beta1, beta2, beta3 naming of testing releases, just one beta, and then a lot of RC. Even more machiavelic :) : make people believe the final release is 7 days before the real gold state. Apparently, people (and I blame myself too) begin to report bugs at the last minute, and unfortunately, too many bugs appear in bugzilla at the same time. You would then have more time to correct bugs.
On the other hand, urpmi is very nice to update the release, so it is not so important to have a 100% bug-free final if the update repository contain corrected packages. However, I don't know if reviewers take time to download updates when they write their paper. Eric
