On Jan 16, 11:13 am, Jeroen Demeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-01-16 11:57, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:> I think if you produce a 
> different version, then it should have a

> > The whole idea of making "beta" releases public is for people to be able
> > to report bugs.
>
> Of course people can report bugs, but only for *released* development
> versions.  Was I that unclear?

FWIW, I misinterpreted your email in exactly the same way David did.

So we now have a system where a Sage tarball one downloads may be
"released" or "unreleased", and (independently?) it may be "rc",
"beta", "alpha" or even "prealpha". I fear this will become hopelessly
confusing for ordinary developers (i.e. those who are not involved in
release management on a day-to-day basis). Couldn't we reserve
prealpha/alpha for unreleased versions, and re-christen them as betas
when they are "released", so there's always a canonical latest beta
which would be the natural one to use for general development work and
general bug-reporting?

Regards, David

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