Hi John I requested that Dave add the RC tag to better keep track of multiple release candidates and make it easier for testing and not mixing any previous version up accidentally. This is very common and currently done in many TLP's including Thrift, Mesos, and Cassandra to name a few.
-Jake On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 7:20 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Dave <snoopd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:09 PM, John D. Ament <john.d.am...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Also, your release vote is for RC4. Please vote on your PPMC for 1.0 > > >> first. > > > > > > > > > I don't see why that is necessary. We already voted to release Usergrid > > > 1.0 on the PPMC list. > > > > > > > I should also mention that the reason we named the release files with > > "-rc4" is because one of our mentors insisted that we do so. > > > > Could you like to such an exchange and perhaps could the mentor speak up to > clarify? > > I'm by no means saying that you can't create a 1.0.0-rc4 release. What you > can't do, as far as I am aware, is create a release called 1.0.0-rc4, then > simply restate that it's actually 1.0.0. > > (for all intents and purposes, I *support* your rc4 naming convention, I > use the same thing at work. However we re-execute the release with the new > version applied in maven. > > > > > > - Dave > > >
