On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Suresh Srinivas <sur...@hortonworks.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Owen O'Malley <omal...@apache.org> wrote: > > > I think that using "-(alpha,beta)" tags on the release versions is a > really > > bad idea. > > > Why? Can you please share some reasons? > > We already had a means for denoting 'alpha' software -- release candidates -- and 'beta'; early versions of a major release were installed with trepidation by all but the clueless. We also had a place for API changes and wire format revamps; they were done in the next major version, not between point releases (caveat unintended mess-ups). The -alpha and -beta designations muddy hard-won understanding of what the numbers mean. > I actually think alpha and beta and stable/GA are much better way to set > the expectation > of the quality of a release. This has been practiced in software release > cycle for a long time. > Not in hadoop though, not until these 2.0ings. > Having an option to release alpha is good for releasing early and getting > feedback from > people who can try it out and at the same time warning other not so > adventurous users on > quality expectation. > > Lets call it a snapshot instead because alpha is damaged (IMO). Thanks Suresh, St.Ack
