I saw reference somewhere (I believe it was either an Apache or PHP discussion) to 4.1.3 being beta but I'm not sure if this was just wishful thinking on the part of those particular developers. If this is the case then going by the dates of previous releases in the 4.1 branch (not always a good guide) then 4.1 will go beta somewhere around the period November 2004 to February 2005.
How long was 4.0 is alpha? I seem to recall it was more than 6 months. Are you able to run 4.1 in some sort of test environment to see how it performs for you? You may find it works well enough to deploy right now, you may not. A major bug for one guy may not affect you at all - it could be platform specific or affect a feature you don't use. Cheers Andrew. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Frisby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jonathan Soong'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:09 PM Subject: RE: Production release of MySql 4.1 > As I understand it, the particular cycle a release is in depends on how long > it's been since a major bug was reported. So an alpha becomes a beta if > nobody reports a major bug after N days, and a beta becomes a production > release if goes N days without a major bug report. Thus, even if 4.1.3 is > released as alpha, it could retroactively be declared beta, and then even > release -- although that's pretty unlikely. The long and short of it > though, is that nobody can tell you how long until 4.1 will go beta. > > -JF > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jonathan Soong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:20 PM > > To: Jocelyn Fournier > > Cc: John Murphy; Emmanuel van der Meulen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Production release of MySql 4.1 > > > > Jocelyn Fournier wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > AFAIK 4.1.3 should be beta. > > > > > > > It is a little frustrating, > > > > at Linux Conf Adelaide 2004 (January), the Mysql guy there > > said that 4.1 > > would be in beta, in the next few weeks ... > > > > Its now July and its still in Alpha. > > > > It says on the webpage "MySQL 4.1 -- Alpha release (use this for new > > development)" - and it has said that for 6months+ > > > > So we did our development on 4.1, and were expecting it to be beta by > > February 2004. > > > > We're ready to roll it out as soon as it hits beta, i told my boss it > > would be in beta by March 2004 at the latest. We now have hardware > > sitting for around with 4.1 alpha on it that cannot be deployed. > > > > Does anyone actually have a concrete date when 4.1 will go into beta? > > > > Cheers > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > -- > > Jonathan Soong > > Information Services > > Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS) > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web : http://www.imvs.sa.gov.au > > Tel : +61 8 82223095 > > Fax : +61 8 82223147 > > > > > > -- > > MySQL General Mailing List > > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > > To unsubscribe: > > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
