Get rid of the -beta version suffix #4221

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   laanwj commented at 3:53 pm on May 23, 2014: member

   It’s a relic of the past that needs to go away.

   This is not to say that the system is mature now, suddenly. We keep the ’this is experimental software’ disclaimer, of course. But it confuses too many people. It doesn’t tie in with the other naming we use for releases like ‘major release’ ‘minor release’ ‘release candidate’.

2. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.10.0 on May 23, 2014
3. laanwj added the label Improvement on May 23, 2014
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   gmaxwell commented at 3:54 pm on May 23, 2014: contributor

   I’m really not looking forward to the misinformed “zomg bitcoin no longer beta!” noise no reddit that this may inspire, but — yea, from a purely practical perspective that notice makes people think they have the wrong version too often, so I agree.
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   sipa commented at 3:55 pm on May 23, 2014: member

   I liked “-dirty-beta”.
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   jgarzik commented at 3:57 pm on May 23, 2014: contributor

   @gmaxwell True though that is a one-time cost. The software is clearly production at this point, no matter how “beta” it may still be.
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   laanwj commented at 4:02 pm on May 23, 2014: member

   @sipa That’s the perfect illustration of why the suffix is wrong :)
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   ghost commented at 4:21 pm on May 23, 2014: none

   In my view it has to go away. There is a pretty standard convention in software release cycles, dev, alpha, beta, rc and stable. The use of beta is just wrong.
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   sipa commented at 4:22 pm on May 23, 2014: member

   Yeah, agree.
10. laanwj closed this on Jun 12, 2014

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laanwj gmaxwell sipa jgarzik ghost

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Refactoring

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0.10.0