There was a discussion about this here on HN when they announced this naming change. At the time it didn't make sense to me and it really still doesn't. The N

There was a discussion about this here on HN when they announced this naming change. At the time it didn't make sense to me and it really still doesn't. The Nightly, Alpha, Beta, RC standard is pretty ubiquitous and I think it's just confusing to swap out one of the terms with a new one. I knew about the name convetion change and I still saw this title and was perplexed for a moment. Edit: found the old article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2443719