Why to have an alpha branch?

[Tony Garnock-Jones]

Brian Rice wrote:
> I selectively pull patches from main to alpha, manually.

So main is the development branch? And alpha is the stable branch? ISTM 
that the names imply the *opposite* arrangement :)

Tony

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