Suggestion / Request

Write announcement blog posts for Beta releases similar to those currently written for Stable releases.

Motivation

It is my understanding that Beta releases are currently underused / undertested. For example, this comment on Reddit suggests that lack of use of Beta builds was a factor in incremental compilation having to be disabled in the upcoming 1.59 release.

From my perspective as a Rust user, one of the main reasons I don't use Beta releases is because I don't know what they include. I am often excited to upgrade to new Stable releases so that I can try out the new features, but the same is not true of Beta releases because even if they contain particularly exciting features, I won't know about it!

To add a quote from another Rust user:

Before this post I wasn't even aware there was a beta release and I looked at this subreddit at least weekly for the last 2 years.

Other concerns

As far as I can see, it wouldn't be any more work to write up the release notes / introduction blog post for the Beta release (and then reuse the same notes for the Stable release). The work would have to happen sooner. If that's an issue then perhaps the post could be made 2-3 weeks into the release cycle (which would also have the benefit of being offset from Stable announcements).

Tagging everyone who has recently created a PR for a release blog post @tmandry @cuviper @Mark-Simulacrum @pietroalbini