[Development] Proposal to adjust release candidate process

[Thiago Macieira]

Em quinta-feira, 22 de dezembro de 2016, às 12:54:08 BRST, Tuukka Turunen 
escreveu:
> > And besides, alpha and beta are traditional and well understood. 
> > (Following that pattern though, I guess we ought to call the RC a
> > “gamma”, but that’s not traditional for some reason.)
> 
> 
> 
> If we do not want to call the first development release from the release
> branch "Release Candidate 1", then I think calling it "Release Preview" is
> a good approach.

Call it beta 2 (or gamma 1) right after branch and one we've iterated and we 
could have released, we call it release candidate. We release them more often, 
with more iterations, so that we get more feedback. I think that's the most 
important part.

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