+1 ____________________________ John Yeary ____________________________ *NetBeans Dream Team*
*Founder Greenville Java Users GroupJava Users Groups Community Leader* ____________________________ <http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com/> <https://twitter.com/jyeary> <http://www.youtube.com/johnyeary> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jyeary> <https://plus.google.com/112146428878473069965> <http://www.facebook.com/jyeary> <http://feeds.feedburner.com/JavaEvangelistJohnYearysBlog> <http://netbeans.org/people/84414-jyeary> "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:46 PM William L. Thomson Jr. <w...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:14:58 +0200 > Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: > > > No > > YES!!!! > > > the Apache terminology is voting candidate. > > Just because Apache terminology is voting candidate. That does not mean > it should be tagged as such. I package quite a few Apache projects. > NONE use this crazy format of -vc*. Most Apache release are voted on. > > Please stick with common stuff, dev, alpha, beta, pre. For releases > there should be NO additional suffix. > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 7:06 AM László Kishalmi > > <laszlo.kisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I meant: I'm not sure that we need to vote on this. It's more like > > > a beta. Shouldn't we have called it beta at first? Just for the > > > further release processes... > > Yes it should be a -beta or -pre, or something standard... > > Examples of other Apache release that were voted on and released > without crazy tags.... > > You can see Votes > https://www.mail-archive.com/dev@maven.apache.org/ > > No crazy -vc tags.... > https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/releases > https://github.com/apache/maven/releases > > Some more apache projects > https://github.com/apache/tomcat/releases > https://github.com/apache/ant/releases > https://github.com/apache/commons-pool/releases > https://github.com/apache/commons-logging/releases > > I have never seen any Apache project use -vc for tagging a vote > candidate. They may exist, but the first time I recall seeing this was > with Apache Netbeans. Can anyone find another Apache project that has > -vc tags? If not then why is Netbeans doing this? > > This is what I had to do for 9.0. Nasty hidden change of version. > > https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/eclass/java-netbeans.eclass#L17 > > I have to do something similar for 10.0-vc1. Which I also have to add > some other prefix, as I cannot use 10.0 -> 10.0-vc1 like I do for 9.0. > As 10 is not fully released, there maybe another 10.0-vc*.... > > On github seems like 9.0 was never released.... What is the difference > between 9.0-vc* and 10.0-vc* ? Which one the release? Which one is > just a voting candidate? > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/releases > > If you must continue on with -vc tags. Please create another non -vc > tag for the actual release. You can have more than one tag for a given > commit. But really the -vc stuff is just confusing. It seems only > Netbeans is using this odd format. It is not standard. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
