Re: [release] Boost 1.72.0 Release Candidate 1

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-12-05 16:48:54

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:23 AM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> Not a suggestion for 1.72, but we could probably simplify pre-releases
> naming to just RCn without betas. I.e. we'd have 4-5 RCs instead of RC
> betas and RCs.
>

The reason that we have betas is that some external folks (like linux
distros) trigger on that.
They ignore boost until they see a beta release, then they start testing
against that; knowing that a release is imminent.

-- Marshall