I agree.
Why not release a Beta version or something like that? Let's not be too
driven purely by deadlines here. That is how we got Windows ME.

A beta release now, followed by another week or so of bugfixing seems
certainly reasonable.

Just my $0.02
Steve

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 18:08 +0100, gl wrote:
> I second the
> idea that if you need to release something it should be tagged as
> 'pre-release' / '2.9b' or similar.