version numbers for release candidates

HI!

Sometimes many interesting changes are solely in RE24 and releasing the next true release takes some time. During this period I'd love to see pre-release version numbers assigned to RE24.

Especially in case Quanah sends out an inquiry for another RE24 test round something like currently 2.4.41a1 or 2.4.41b5 or 2.4.41rc42 could be assigned (see http://semver.org/).

This would make it possible to package RPMs etc. of pre-releases with non-conflicting version numbers which get replace by the real release package later. And for test rounds everybody would test the same snapshot.

What do you think?

Ciao, Michael.