Chris Holmes ha scritto: > Hey guys, I just checked out the new UI, and it looks really great. > Definitely a large improvement over the struts stuff, way more usable. > > Most everything seems to work decently, so I'm wondering why we're > calling the next release alpha2? Alpha to me implies little more than a > working prototype. Trunk right now is definitely better than that. If > we call it an alpha then we won't get that many people checking it out > and giving feedback.
Hmm... the rationale is that we did so many changes and so little hands on testing that it's very likely to break in unexpected ways. The official wikipedia classification is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle Alpha's are meant for internal testing... which we don't have. If you look at Ubuntu they released 9.04 beta one month before the final release, after 4 alphas. One thing that I also seemed to know about alphas are they are not feature complete. And 2.0 is not, given that community schema is not working right now. My vote is to call it still alpha. Also consider that we're discussing switching from jdbc datastores to jdbc-ng ones for this release, and the postgis-ng datastore has received zero testing, solid, besides the unit test harness. I don't think it even passes the cite tests (due to some weird tests comparing dates with strings, but anyways). Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list Geoserver-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
