pre-releases?

[zany]

The best solution would to but warning: "this is beta stuff, it can eat your cat, but we would appreciate feedback anyway".

I double dare them to write that in the next beta 7 I mean beta 8!
nobody ever said why beta 3 was pulled

[Emdek]

I guess because of similar issues, but found in time before making it public.
It got tagged AFAIK so it needed to be skipped.

[cybersphinx]

nobody ever said why beta 3 was pulled

Hm, that one... iirc think after tagging beta3 there were some... irregularities found in network games nobody could reproduce later and a commit that might or might not help or be necessary; until deciding to include that enough time passed that redoing the beta3 tag might leave some people with the old one, so we made a new one.

[zany]

nobody ever said why beta 3 was pulled

Hm, that one... iirc think after tagging beta3 there were some... irregularities found in network games nobody could reproduce later and a commit that might or might not help or be necessary; until deciding to include that enough time passed that redoing the beta3 tag might leave some people with the old one, so we made a new one.

tagging is what? mark it for release and that can't change?

[cybersphinx]

tagging is what? mark it for release and that can't change?

Basically, yes. A static name for one commit. You can make that point to another commit, but if someone already got the old one, it won't automatically update. See also "On Re-tagging" here: http://schacon.github.com/git/git-tag.html

[zany]

The best solution would to but warning: "this is beta stuff, it can eat your cat, but we would appreciate feedback anyway".

I double dare them to write that in the next beta 7 I mean beta 8!
nobody ever said why beta 3 was pulled

they didn't do it

[Cyp]

The best solution would to but warning: "this is beta stuff, it can eat your cat, but we would appreciate feedback anyway".

It can't do that (unless you didn't follow all of the recommended safety instructions exactly).

[aubergine]

What about:

"This is a beta release. If you use it we will rob your dog and sell it back to you. We know where you live. That is all."

[Emdek]

The best solution would to but warning: "this is beta stuff, it can eat your cat, but we would appreciate feedback anyway".

It can't do that (unless you didn't follow all of the recommended safety instructions exactly).

I was thinking so, but someone reported that such thing happened, I couldn't believe it, but well, strange things happen.

[Lord Apocalypse]

well, you could just tell the cry babies that the next release will be an alpha instead of a beta. Then we shall see if they cry over the next beta or not