On 14.10.2007, at 17:01, Roland Weber wrote:
...
I recently found this Apache page describing release labels:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#release-typeso
Hmm, this part of the page is nice and dandy but the versioning
schemes across all ASF project are not really consistent so it's IMHO
pretty useless :-/
It seems that our use of "Release Candidate" for something
between beta and final is not the intended interpretation.
Actually I believe a lot of ASF projects are using the -rcX suffix
exactly for that purpose and I think that makes more sense than using
it for un-approved releases (which simply should be put into tlp.a.o/
dev/dist/ and never into a.o/dist/ - the name is irrelevant, just not
voted-on/approved and not released to the general public).
What are we going to do about it?
a) ignore it and continue to use the label as before
b) find a new label between beta and final
c) have betas until we're final
I'm -0 on a, but have no preference among b and c.
I see no problems with a) and c). b) is pretty confusing if there's
no page describing the new label ;-)
IMO the above page should be changed to clarify that the term
"release candidate" is ambiguous and is used in several ways, e.g.:
1) approved release candidates:
public candidates which will soon be released as a major milestone,
e.g. foo-1.0-rc1, 1.0-rc2, ..., will soon become foo-1.0 after
enough
feedback about its "fitness" has been gathered from the public
community
2) unapproved releases candidates:
"non-public" candidates distributed only to developers to vote on,
e.g. foo-1.0 in tlp.a.o/dev/dist/, will soon become foo-1.0 in
a.o/dist/
after it got approved by the developers
2) is what HTTPD is usually doing - there's no -rcX, the name is
identical to the final release and it's just a candidate on which the
developers are voting. After the candidate got approved it's simply
moved over to a.o/dist/, or re-rolled if the vote wasn't successful etc.
Confusing, eh... ;-)
Cheers,
Erik
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