Where will support be for beta once released?

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Re: Where will support be for beta once released?

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muse-ic wrote: dumb question: what's the difference between a release candidate and the final version?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmen ... _candidate" target="_blank


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Re: Where will support be for beta once released?

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ah - so it's just an 'insurance' term really then, just incase there are minor faults
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Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed :P
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Strictly speaking a RC is stable enough to make a final release. Its just another precaution to find any faults/bugs in the code

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spambot wrote: Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed
Precisely

That would be once the bug tracker actually reaches: The Big O
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spambot wrote: Or just in case there is a major fault that hasn't been noticed :P
Which i know from first hand expierence can happen. This happend to another unrelated project that i was about to go to when i found a huge bug that had some how slipped by the developers there.
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TwistedWeather wrote:
smithy_dll wrote: It's not alpha, phpBB isn't doing alpha releases (or tags) for phpBB3.
Sorry about that. :oops:


What exactly would this be called then?
Developmental version is the term I most often hear.
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