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Suggested Solution: Don't use RCs for Quarterly releases (by default)
- We sometimes already do this, for example with 23.7.0.
- We can still soak for a longer period of time than normal for riskier changes and we can advertise our soak to beta testers if we wish.We sometimes already do this, for example with 23.7.0.
- We can still use a release branch if we feel the need, this proposal just suggests by default we try to use release from main.
- There is no need for this proposal to change the concept or versioning of quarterly releases and what they might signal (more significant changes).
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