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[Roger Erens <roger.erens@xxxxxxxxx>]

on 21-5-2009 23:10 Tim Cook wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> It has always been my opinion that alpha releases are really just
> upgrades to the trunk.  
I do not understand that: you replace the trunk by some newer version?

> Some other projects actually release packages as alpha releases.
I think having alpha releases helps focusing attention of fellow 
developers/testers. It gives people (uhm, that's to say: me) a more 
comforting feeling of 'stability', or at least a less moving target than 
yet another revision of trunk.

> What to you think?  Is it worth the time and energy required to create
> tar.gz packages or just continue with incremental trunk upgrades until
> we are ready for a beta 1 release?
I would favor to have some trunk snapshot (a 'revision') be tagged 
'version-1.0a1' or whatever label you like. And skip the trouble of 
exporting to a tar.gz release.

Roger