On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Anilkumar Gingade <aging...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Thanks Nitin, > >>> My preference would be for dot releases instead of alpha1, apha2, beta, > RC, etc. Other thoughts? > +1 on this...If we are planning to do only one intermediate release before > 1.0 release (as mike was suggesting) we can call this 0.5. > > I had looked into the task/tickets for alpha release; i was trying to see > if we have any additional intermediate releases and requirement for them.
On the other hand, alpha/beta release labels clearly send signal to your user community to start testing and providing feedback. Alphas says: do it now or later, beta says: do it now or forever hold your peace. This worked well for Hadoop 2.0 release. Thanks, Roman.
