Hmmm... Ok, if we are switching to postgis-ng then that's sufficient reason for me to go with alpha.
Andrea Aime wrote: > 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 > -- Chris Holmes 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
