How about:

...
- final (new release)
---------------------------
- alpha + build number
- beta + build number (as soon as there is a release manager / we are working towards a new release)
- rc1, rc2, ... (release candidates built or approved by release manager)
- final (new release)
---------------------------
...

If we agree that the next version should be called for example 5.2, it will be called 5.2 all along the release process except if we decide it should be a major release. Then we do the renaming in or after the release candidate phase. Example: 5.2 alpha-X, 5.2 beta-X, [ major release decision ], 6.0 RC1, 6.0 Final.


On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:27 AM Tobias Pape <Das.Linux@gmx.de> wrote:

On 28.06.2016, at 09:36, marcel.taeumel <Marcel.Taeumel@hpi.de> wrote:

> Eliot Miranda-2 wrote
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Ben Coman &lt;
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>> btc@
>
>> &gt; wrote:
>>
>>> Release To Manfacture
>>>
>>
>> I much prefer "final".
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Eliot Miranda &lt;
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>> eliot.miranda@
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>> &gt;
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 4:05 AM, H. Hirzel &lt;
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>> hannes.hirzel@
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>> &gt;
>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> +1 Makes sense.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, what does Rtm stand for?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to know this too.  No one seems to have answered this yet.
>>> What
>>>> does "Rtm" mean?  I know what RTFM means.  Doesn't seem to fit here ;-)
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And how will minor maintenance releases be marked, which happen from
>>>>> time to time?
>>>>>
>>>>> As Tobias writes
>>>>>
>>>>>    SystemVersion current
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> does not return an 'alpha' suffix, this should be fixed.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --Hannes
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/22/16, marcel.taeumel &lt;
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>> Marcel.Taeumel@
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>> &gt; wrote:
>>> images,
>>> doesn't
>>> I
>>> that,
>>> them
>>> can
>>> http://forum.world.st/Renaming-Squeak-s-system-version-from-Squeak-alpha-to-SqueakTrunk-tp4902398p4902424.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>>>> best, Eliot
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> _,,,^..^,,,_
>> best, Eliot
>
> RTM is not needed. After rc_n comes alpha plus the release with no suffix.

I thought alpha always precedes rc's?

:D

>
> Best,
> Marcel