Doug Way wrote:

> On Thursday, July 24, 2003, at 04:09 PM, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
> 
>> I propose we declare first Thursday of September (5.9.2003) our new
>> release target, with august 29th for the move to gamma, giving us an
>> additional month of beta. Considering that we're still doing reworks on
>> contexts and the network rewrite, I think that's reasonable.
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> This sounds like a good idea.  Although the original plan called for 2 
> weeks for gamma, which I think would still probably be a good balance, 
> since we're stretching out the beta by quite a bit.  So, that would be 
> August 22nd for gamma.  (although I don't feel really strongly about this)
> 
> Hmm, if we postpone the gamma this far, we may want to open 3.7alpha 
> earlier than the 22nd/29th so that the various enhancements that have 
> been posted don't "rot" for too long.  

I would think as well that opening 3.7alpha earlier is a good thing.

There are people who like to live in an
alpha environment more or less the whole time, while others prefer
a beta or gamma environment. Otherwise you risk that the beta
becomes 'alpha' in fact, as to heavy changes may go in. Beta
is a feature freeze (this includes refactoring!). Only bug fixes
should go in.

Hannes