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From my point of view as a maintainer, there are two main reasons I use test releases. 1. For a package in which I'm also an upstream contributor (like Emacs or TeX Live or Cygwin), I might want to make a test release of an upcoming upstream release to catch bugs prior to the release. I generally use release numbers like 0.1, 0.2,... for these. 2. If there's a new upstream release of a package that I'm less familiar with, I just want to make a standard release, but I might not be confident that there's no breakage on Cygwin. So I start with a test release (with release number 1), and if no problems are reported after a few weeks I untest it, keeping the release number unchanged. I personally wouldn't have any use for a release number 0 in either case. Ken