<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 29 Aug 2012, at 12:00, Jerry Lundström wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><blockquote type="cite">I would like to target the end of next week for a beta release (7th Sept).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></blockquote><br><br>Is it wise since it looks like we will have 1.4.0a4 next week?<br><br>Do we need a new alpha really? Can't we go straight to beta if we feel that all features are there?</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>2 reasons for an alpha 4 (this week if possible) in my opinion:</div><div>- this beta date is a target and could slip (what is your estimate for completing the testing?)</div><div>- it was agreed in the team meeting a few weeks ago that since the alpha 4 contains significant changes (multi-threaded enforcer and PIN storage) it should be released as soon as those developments were finished, rather than waiting for beta. </div><div><br></div><div>Plus you normally vote for release early, release often!</div><br></body></html>