On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Mark Hamstra <m...@clearstorydata.com> wrote:
> I still don't know where this "severely compromised builds of limited >> usefulness" thing comes from? what's so bad? You didn't veto its >> release, after all. > > > I simply mean that it was released with the knowledge that there are still > significant bugs in the preview that definitely would warrant a veto if > this were intended to be on a par with other releases. There have been > repeated announcements to that effect, but developers finding the preview > artifacts on Maven Central months from now may well not also see those > announcements and related discussion. The artifacts will be very stale and > no longer useful for their limited testing purpose, but will persist in the > repository. > > A few months from now, why would a developer choose a preview, alpha, beta compared to the GA 2.0 release ? As for the being stale part, this is true for every release anyone put out there. -- Luciano Resende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
