On 11 Feb 07, at 1:41 AM 11 Feb 07, Wayne Fay wrote:
I really have to agree with Jochen. I understand the point of alpha,
beta etc in certain classes of applications but find it to be
generally too much overhead with things like simple Maven plugins.
The 0.x versioning already implies "not really a full/final release"
so I think the alpha tag is a bit redundant in this case, too. But I
don't really want to start a big discussion on version-naming
strategies, just felt like throwing in my 2c...
The alpha indicates the API might change, where the 0.x type means
you're just farting around and trying to hack something around.
When you're ready to move from hacking around to where you think you
might release it goes to 1.0-alpha-1-SNAPSHOT and this clearly
indicates to someone that play at your own risk, but also that you
are approaching the first release you are making. Regardless of what
you are releasing people would know that this is the first release.
After you release this first version you may get feedback that
indicates "oh, we got some of this wrong" and do somethings over.
So, yes, this is rather arbitrary but I would like to come up with
something makes it clear to people where a project is by looking at
it's version number. If it is something very simple then I think you
can skip right to the alpha-1, but I think that still is the
responsible thing to do as without a release and some feedback you
might have any numbers of things wrong.
Jason.
Wayne
On 2/10/07, Jochen Wiedmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/10/07, Dan Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +1 on alpha-1 release.
I'll never understand the advantage of these long version numbers for
such simple programs like this, but the change is fine for me.
Jochen
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