On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Scott Gray wrote: > On 13/04/2010, at 10:21 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > >> >> On Apr 13, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Scott Gray wrote: >> >>> On 13/04/2010, at 9:36 PM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: >>> >>>> On Apr 13, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Scott Gray wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Jacopo, >>>>> >>>>> What exactly does it mean to create an "alpha" release, compared to what >>>>> we have now where we create a release branch? >>>> >>>> It fundamentally means that we can distribute it outside of the inner >>>> group of contributors because the we can guarantee that it is full >>>> compliant with ASF license requirements. >>> >>> Ah okay I see what you mean and that sounds fine to me. I'm not entirely >>> clear on the version numbering though, 10.04a, 10.04b, 10.04 (this is the >>> stable one), 10.04.1 (post stable bug fix release?) >>> >> >> Numbering is an interesting point because it is difficult to state what is >> "stable" from what is not; in your example, of course 10.04a is not stable; >> however what makes 10.04 stable? In fact it is less stable than 10.04.1. >> I don't know, if we are concerned about clarifying what we consider stable >> we could follow the following strategy: adding the prefix "alpha-" to all >> the releases we feel like should not be considered "stable". >> For example: >> alpha-10.04.a >> alpha-10.04.b >> Then when we feel we can consider the release stable: >> 10.04 (first stable release on 10.04) >> 10.04.1 (latest current stable release on 10.04) >> or even: >> stable-10.04 >> stable-10.04.1 >> >> Even if it could be simpler to just start from 10.04.1 since the first alpha >> release and then continue increasing the suffix: >> alpha-10.04.1 >> alpha-10.04.2 >> stable-10.04.3 >> stable-10.04.4 >> >> but I understand that this is less appealing (i.e. the "stable" release will >> start with 10.04.3) > > I don't think we're limited to the version name when it comes to describing > each release, the download page and perhaps a README file can help as well. > How about: > 10.04-alpha-1 > 10.04-alpha-2 > 10.04 > 10.04.1 > 10.04.2 > ? >
Yes, I like it Jacopo > Regards > Scott
