[Mailman-Users] GNU Mailman 3 alpha 5

[Terri Oda]

The short answer is no, you do not want to ask for an upgrade yet.

An alpha release is an early one, prior to the product being ready for 
all users.  Wikipedia has a reasonable page explaining how software 
releases are often named:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_release

  Terri

Clare Redstone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I don't know enough about how new releases are named. Does alpha mean this
> Mailman 3 is now ready for general use? Should I ask my host provider to
> move us to it? I'm a bog-standard user so not ready for something that is
> still going through early tests and doesn't have everything set up yet.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Clare
> 
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