On Wednesday, 12 December 2012 at 19:28:54 UTC, Rob T wrote:
The beta foobar speaks of is actually a combined alpha+beta,
--rt
No. I have already addressed this point before.
Alpha is not part of the _official_ release process.
As a developer I can create my own local branch "DMD-new_feature"
to experiment with some new idea I had. I can later on push this
upstream and share my new cool feature with other developers to
play with. besides other developers, users can also fetch these
new branches and build themselves. This is done _before_ it
matures enough to be included in beta testing.
