I am fine with it if there is a clear page which shows the status of each release (i.e. linked from the downloads page: http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi)
And if we want to go that way, I say let's just drop all the alpha crap. and go for 3.1.0 straight. My point is that there is a trade off... and as such there is no right or wrong answer... only shades of grey On 29 May 2013 09:17, Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But having said all that, if we can find a good way to flag versions as > not > > released (e.g. a release history page or something) I am not against > > skipping version numbers. Might confuse people though if that meant that > > the first release of Maven 3.1.0 was 3.1.4 (i.e. if we had not been doing > > alpha's) > > > > > It is what Tomcat is doing ? > They release regularly and depending of feedback they announce it or not > AFAIR > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/changelog.html > In the changelog (ex 7.0.38) you have a "not released" instead of the date > when they dropped it > > Arnaud >
