Re: [TCLCORE] release candidate 8.5a6 available (drh@hwaci.com)

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Kevin Kenny wrote:
> Nevertheless, the "beta" status doesn't mean "debugged," it means,
> "feature complete."  That said, I'm all for a full-court press on the
> bug count, before or after shipping b1.  I don't see the need for
> an a6 - just warn that b1, as might be expected, is an unstable release.

I agree with Kevin here. While I'd love b1 to be bug free, I'd rather we
shipped it instead of hanging around for ages in end-of-alpha limbo with
a feature freeze in place but no beta releases. If I'd known that there
was going to be such a long gap from last December to the next release,
and that that release was going to be an alpha release, I'd have never
stood for a feature freeze back then.

Donal.