Oh, I meant the 1.0.x, 1.1.x, 2.x.x, etc version. Yeah, the -beta is not a good idea (IMHO).
I have to ask the Cloudera and Hortonworks folks then: Why not wait until 0.96 is stable? Why backport snapshots to 0.94? -- Lars ________________________________ From: Stack <st...@duboce.net> To: HBase Dev List <dev@hbase.apache.org>; lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:19 PM Subject: Re: Upcoming merge of snapshots branch into trunk. (HBASE-6055 and HABSE-7290) 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
