On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:34 PM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> wrote:
> Eventually we should switch to semantic versioning (like Hadoop). > > The -beta stuff? Nah, at least in Hadoop, it has been arbitrarily applied (and contended). Lets not use Hadoop as an example. We have some precedent for linux-y odd is unstable, even is stable. Lets hold to it I'd say. > It also depends on the timing of 0.96. > The fact that two companies want to port this to 0.94 seems to indicate > low confidence that we can ship a stable 0.96 soon. > > I think it is more that 0.96.0 is a singularity. Including 0.96 in a downstreamer's bundle only makes sense when the vendor is moving to a new major version. These major versions happen on a less frequent cycle. We just need to make sure 0.96 is out and well-baked the next time these cycles come around. St.Ack
