alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Rahul Sundaram]

dexter wrote:
> On Tue November 27 2007 17:36:17 Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> I just want to stress that we're working hard to keep people from
>> thinking of Fedora as "a beta release of RHEL".
> 
> Education starts at home, here's a paragraph from mspevac 7 nov from the 
> announce list.
> """
> Fedora's development priorities tend to come in cycles.  If you think 
> back to the Fedora Core 6 release cycle, you will remember that a 
> significant portion of the engineering goals for that release were 
> driven by the knowledge that Fedora Core 6 would be the upstream for Red 
> Hat Enterprise Linux 5.  Everyone knew going in that Fedora Core 6 would 
> be more "corporate" than "community". And that was ok, because we also 
> knew that once Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released, the Fedora 
> Project would be able to spend its next several releases focused on its 
> community-related priorities.  Fedora 9 will probably start to see the 
> pendulum swing back in the other direction, as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> 6 starts to materialize on the horizon.
> """
> Hmm sounds like beta to me.

Ear damage probably.

Rahul