Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"

[jdow]

From: "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram at redhat.com>

> jdow wrote:
> 
>> From: "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram at redhat.com>
>>
>>> There is no beta releases for Fedora. Only test releases.
>>
>>
>> A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - or bad.
>> {^_-}
> 
> You miss the point obviously. Beta releases have a very different 
> meaning from test releases. Test releases are snapshots of the current 
> development tree at that point  with a  limited development freeze and 
> there are three test releases before the final release with significant 
> number of updates in between them. Beta releases on the other hand are 
> close to the final releases and is the second stage after a 
> internal/private alpha release.

Oy! So they are post-alpha releases or pre-alpha? Methinks me sees
now that they are pretty darned early in the cycle from rawhide to
a formal FedoraCore release.

{^_^}