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Revise Alpha/Beta guidelines iteration office hrs

Jackie Porter requested to merge jmeshell-master-patch-93355 into master

Why is this change being made?

In the iteration office hours yesterday Sid mentioned that alpha, beta, incomplete features could be part of the release post (and then you can add them again in a future release post once they are more usable). At the same time, in the past we had a convention that only finished iterations, not behind feature flags, and so on should be included. I.e., they could be small iterations but should be ready for production use, and our definitions of alpha, beta etc. explicitly list them as not ready for production use: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/product/gitlab-the-product/#alpha-beta-ga)

This MR is to clarify when and how to notify users of an Alpha and Beta offering

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Edited by Jackie Porter

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