On 2010-01-29, at 5:02 PM, Gustavo Hexsel wrote: > Just as a side note: in most projects, alpha implies that changes in > features or public APIs is possible or likely. Maybe it's not the case for > Maven... >
From the CLI perspective nothing should change, so from that perspective there is less change. It's really finding bugs and making sure the CLI is full compatible. Internally the APIs are still changing as we are improving embedded use as new situations present themselves. > []s Gus > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@sonatype.com> wrote: > >> >> On 2010-01-29, at 4:09 PM, nicolas de loof wrote: >> >>> could we use "milestone" as names in replacement for "alpha", so that we >> get >>> more early-adopter to test the (pre)release and detected regressions ? >>> >>> I can understand the difficulty to suggest a build tool with "alpha" in >>> version name. Would you install Windows 8 alpha on your @work computer ? >> ;) >>> >> >> I'm not really into playing the name game to please managers. I think what >> we're doing is the right way to go. It's going to take a bit longer, but >> we're absorbing the change requests as fast as we can now. The error reports >> are of good quality and helpful. When those dry up then it will be time to >> move on. >> >>> 2010/1/29 Stephane Nicoll <stephane.nic...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> Which bug are your talking about? Have you filled something in Jira? >>>> >>>> S. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Julien HENRY <henr...@yahoo.fr> >> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Yesterday I spend 2 hours fixing a nasty bug with EAR plugin and >>>> dependency >>>>> with type "xml.zip". This dependency was declared in another module of >>>> the >>>>> reactor, and was a dependency of a plugin (maven-andromda-plugin). So >>>> there >>>>> is no reason that the ear plugin "see" this dependency. >>>>> As I read Maven 3 is much more precise dealing with plugin classpath >> and >>>>> dependencies, I asked the project leader to try with Maven 3 alpha 6. >>>>> Hourra! It worked fine. >>>>> >>>>> So I told the project to migrate to Maven 3 but the project leader was >>>>> reluctant as it is flagged as "alpha". >>>>> >>>>> As it seems many Maven guys say Maven 3 alpha 6 is much better than >> Maven >>>>> 2.2.1, could you please for next release use a version with a "higher" >>>>> qualifier that will not afraid corporate people. IMHO "beta" will face >>>> the >>>>> same issue, so I suggest "rc" or something like that. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> >>>>> Julien >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Large Systems Suck: This rule is 100% transitive. If you build one, you >>>> suck" -- S.Yegge >>>> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> Jason van Zyl >> Founder, Apache Maven >> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> >> Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
