On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 12:51, Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote: > Well, since there are two releases of the JDK this here, neatly > interspersed in March and September, it seems like a logical approach to > follow, with the benefit that we could potentially end up having NetBeans > bundles with a JDK, if the stars align. The stars are less likely to align > if we completely ignore those specific months -- sure, we could release in > July and December instead, but why? March and September are as good as any, > and better than most, because of the JDK release cycle.
Completely agree with you there - I was in favour of doing this and keeping the version numbers synced for same reason. On the other hand, the major/minor thing seems odd from a time-based release schedule, which is where the idea for quarterly releases came from. The projects that I can think of that do that generally publicise feature freeze and release dates well in advance (a year), possibly have a "release-ready" master branch, don't guarantee features until feature freeze date, and if a feature isn't ready it misses that release. AFAIK the NB10 without .0 came from the idea that 2019 releases would be NB11, NB12, NB13 and NB14 - no sense that one is more important than another. At the moment, for example, NB11 mentions J2EE support, but playing devils advocate what happens if that misses the release schedule? Does that mean NB11 is delayed, or that J2EE now comes in a point release, or that NB11.1 now becomes NB12? That's what I mean about the release page feeling somewhere stuck between time-based and feature-based. Anyway, as someone with not much time to put into the project right at this moment, I'm not arguing either way - just saying that it still appears a source of confusion. Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
