John Poelstra (poelstra(a)redhat.com) said:
> * the alpha milestone was removed entirely
Reading the IRC log am I correct in understanding that a more detailed
summary is:
"Remove all alpha release tasks from the schedule.
There will be no alpha release because it does not
provide enough value for the effort required to create
it. There is little public testing value from it
either."
?
1) What dates are we proposing for releasing "development snapshots"
before the beta? We should put these on the schedule now.
Not yet determined.
(Skipping over marketing)
The Alpha also naturally gets the release notes process and other
parts
of Fedora going (not development focused tasks) early which is a good
thing. We'd be losing that too.
Is there no way for these to be started without a milestone?
3) If we do away with Alpha as we know it, leaving two test
releases,
can we simply call them "Alpha" and "Beta"? I've always thought
"Preview
Release" was a funny name for a test release and I think the terms
"Alpha" and "Beta" are more familiar to the general public.
Maybe 'beta 1' and 'beta 2'. Given that we're feature frozen, calling
the first milestone 'alpha' seems odd; similarly, given the tree is frozen,
calling the second one 'beta' doesn't quite fit.
Bill