ExpressionEngine 2 FAQ
The fine folks at EllisLab have written a blog post announcing the release of the Official EE2 FAQ. The FAQ, which covers everything from licensing to releases, features a video by EE diva (and our founder) Ryan Irelan.
What’s interesting is this little tidbit:
On December 1st, 2009 we’ll soft launch the ExpressionEngine 2.0 Release Candidate (RC) for purchase. ExpressionEngine 2.0 is currently in Phase 2 of a private beta program, with over 500 participants.
While we’ve known for some time that EE 2.0 will be a “soft launch” without a major marketing push, the terminology of calling it a release candidate is new. The FAQ then goes on to describe what a RC means for EllisLab:
EllisLab considers a Release Candidate to be a X.0.0 version of a software product. This means the product has been thoroughly beta tested but has little to no real world usage. The purpose of a Release Candidate is to acquire real world usage data and respond rapidly to reported bugs and issues that beta testing isn’t capable of catching.
They’ve opened up a forum page for discussion of the FAQ, and we suggest you add any questions there.
Posted on Nov 18, 2009 by Kenny Meyers
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Randy — 08:58 on 11.18.2009
Paying for a RC? Call me old school, but no way. I’ll stick with current version of EE until it’s fully cooked.
Trevor Davis — 10:37 on 11.18.2009
@Randy-
“ExpressionEngine 2.1 will be considered the full public release and be a free upgrade from ExpressionEngine 2.0 RC.”
Randy — 14:37 on 11.18.2009
Thanks @Trevor. I will wait until the plugins that I use are updated and then hopefully by then (Februaryish)we will be at 2.1