>> Mike Connor wrote:

>>> Simon Paquet wrote:

>>>> And on the seventh day Mike Schroepfer spoke:

>>>>> Questions or Thoughts?

>>>> Is a M-release the same as a alpha release?
>>>> If yes, could you please call it an alpha as before, because the
>>>> M-releases are still widely associated by people with releases before
>>>> Mozilla 0.6.

>>> They're not the same.   It is not clear at this time whether those
>>> releases will be alphas or betas beyond M7, so calling them alphas
>>> (i.e. alpha 8/9) is possibly inaccurate/misleading.  I think there's
>>> very little likelihood of confusion here.  I suggested, for the
>>> purpose of scheduling, to resurrect the M* numbering convention,
>>> though we will publicly use alpha or beta versioning as appropriate.

>> Can we use lower-case 'm's, then? The early M* scheme used capital Ms.
>> This is also consistent with how we use lower-case for alphas and betas.
>> An even clearer abbreviation would be e.g. 1.9m7.

> This sounds like an excellent idea to me.