From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2007-06-21T18:02:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about the patchlevel release cycle

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> I would suggest to publish a release candidate tarball, wait for a
> month or so, and see how many problems are found.
> If there are only minor glitches just fix them and make a release. If
> there are many or serious problems, put in the fixes, and publish
> another candidate.

We already did this. 1.8.6 was released after experiencing some preview
releases. The problem Sylvain talks about was not found during that process.

Release candidate is a good validation.  But it doesn't guarantee that
it expresses all problems.