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17919	Release process could use some more detail about beta and release candidates	Preston Holmes	Aymeric Augustin	"I think it is a bit unclear about what counts as a qualifying change later in the release cycle.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-process/#release-cycle

The three phases don't shed much light about what kind of bugs can be filed for alpha, beta, and RC stages

In general I think the feeling is that only Release Blockers/Regressions should be committed at RC stage?

However, in many projects - alpha implies not feature frozen, however that is what is stated by the docs by saying that alpha marks transition from feature adding, to bug fixing.

As the core team increases - having a little clarification in the docs would help.

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