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- A candidate for a next tagged version
- Introduced to make sure that update/change requested by developer(s) is "safe" and will not brake environment (used by large group of developers)
- Used by a limited group of testers (usually by person who request change plus one/two other testers)
- Used for limited amount of time (omne, two days)
- If tests are passed, changes are introduced to RC:
- patches automatically
- library updates (that may change APIs) after confirmation coming from WPCD
- NBBTW: Alpha version is an equivalent of "module load imasenv/x.y.z/rc; module switch tested-lib/tested-ver"
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