My personal opinion based on what I have seen in the forums is that there's very few users who really download a nightly build to try out new things. I do know there are some who do that and do report issues, but most of the times, it's only when there's some kind of announcement about a "release", they try out the version. So I think having a CR (if not a Beta) a couple of weeks before the actual release, backed by an announcement about the CR would help get some real usage for that version.
On Dec 13, 2017, at 11:32 PM, Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2013@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jason,
Looks good in terms of quicker releases.
A related question, given this proposal, would it mean there will never
be Alpha, Beta, CR of WildFly releases anymore?
So with the master branch becoming always stable, and with the short windows I think Alphas and Betas are largely superseded by the nightly builds (effectively there is a release every night!). However if there is a strong desire for a Beta or a CR we could cut one. The overhead is small seeing as you can just take any commit from master.