alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Christopher Aillon]

On 11/29/2007 12:07 PM, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Maintainers should strongly avoid releasing "alpha" or "beta" builds of 
> packages into Fedora (both Rawhide and especially into released 
> distributions). If you think you need to do so, please, test thoroughly 
> and write in the changelog the reasons why you did so (if possible with 
> the timeline stable release could be expected).

Except this is much more restrictive.  I'm not trying to tell people 
what to do.  I'm more trying to answer the question:  "I'm not sure if I 
should bump package foo to x.y.z or not.  How do I decide?"  And you 
left out the IMHO important part that it is the maintainer's best 
judgement call in the end.  NOT a mandate.