Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
>> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
>> > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly
>> > increase the number of testers.
>> > ...
>> > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should
>> > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a
>> > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall.
>> 
>> One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends
>> just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts
>> to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not
>> like to get "beta" installed for them.
>
> Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory...