On 21.11.2011, at 11:26, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:

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> On 11/21/11 9:04 AM, "Levente Uzonyi" <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
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>> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
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>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.3alpha/Squeak4.3gamma-11793.zip
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>> Thanks. I was wondering why is it called gamma and not beta. For the
>> release we should make sure that the changes file is as clean as possible.
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>> Levente
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>> From old conventions , when a release is in freeze mode and not new features
> could be in , it's called gamma and not beta IMHO.
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> Edgar


The convention is

Alpha - still adding features
(then feature freeze happens)
Beta - feature-complete, but expect bugs
(then code freeze happens)
Gamma - release candidate
(then release happens)
Final - release

- Bert -