Hi all, I know the dust hasn't settled at all, but... :-)
I think we should change the release labels for 1.4, as we have briefly talked about earlier. I agree with whoever said it out loud (igor/johan?) that we should have milestone releases instead. So I suggest we label our releases like this: 1.4.0-M1 1.4.0-M2 1.4.0-Mn ... 1.4.0-RC1 1.4.0-RCn ... 1.4.0 So, no alpha or beta releases. They signal something different than what we actually try to do. Our beta releases have never (I only talk about 1.3which is the cycle I know about) been actual beta releases with the amount of new stuff (portlet support in beta4, anyone?) that entered all the time. If we did milestone releases Labelling them like that would also make it easier for me (us) to communicate out what the big new things are in each milestone. I can get more into my RM role and create eclipse-like wiki pages for each milestone describing the new features. And it will make it easier to make the final release note because it will be a concatenation of the milestone release notes. WDYT? Frank
