>
> Please, please do not get into the Groovy habit of treating the label RC
> as a synonym for beta.  RC is a name for a release candidate.  This
> should be a version that can, barring a blocking bug being found, be
> release simply by being relabelled.


While I hate it the same as you, it seems that a lot of people really
doesn't treat this RC label as release candidate anymore -- see Linux kernel
itself, it usually has like 7 to 9 versions called 'rc' before releasing. I
think that calling them simply 'pre' would be good enough.

LT

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