On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:53:50 +1000, Dre wrote:

> So because there is an arbritrary date set, testers have to put up with
> annoying nag messages?

Yes, the reasons for this have been explained in other threads 
previously, but basically boil down to "old beta versions are 
unsupported, so rather than chase down bugs in old versions, the old 
versions expire so beta testers are forced to move to what's current".

As Sabrina said, if you don't want the inconvenience, don't use the beta, 
use the release version instead.

That's the team's decision, and it's based on years of running betas and 
having to deal with people reporting issues in the beta.  It works for 
them, and since they *volunteer* their time to write the code (and it's 
their code, more importantly), they get to decide how to run their betas.

Jim

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