John Poelstra (poelstra@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." ?
- 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?
- 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