i am afraid of people starting to use it. put a lot of time into it, then upgrade to beta2 and have to redo a bunch of crap. if this happened to me id be pissed, i dont like to have the poverbial rug pulled from under me when im using a beta.
So we don't call it beta but alpha or integration build with a date or just a date, we don't put it on sourceforge but just on maven.
if we are going to break it then lets at least do it before we have any sort of a public release. until then people who dont mind living on the bleeding edge can build from source - which those kinds of people do anyways.
It is not for the people who are on 1.2, but who are on 1.3. I expect most to follow asap - which is THE reason why I would like it in 1.3 rather than 1.4 but this intermediate fixture would give people a change to take a breath. Eelco
