Re: [Radiance-dev] Release numbering

2016-03-13 Thread Randolph M. Fritz
As I recall, the way major releases have usually worked is that there's a flurry of fixes afterwards as people adopt them, after which things settle down, and the head goes back to being an alpha. So I was thinking in terms of calling out the major releases as release candidates, and formalizing th

Re: [Radiance-dev] Release numbering

2016-03-13 Thread Gregory J. Ward
We definitely have a more organic, non-standard release process for Radiance. I am open to suggestions for alternatives. One of our ongoing issues is the lack of a test suite to verify a release candidate and identify regressions. We haven't had the resources to create such a test suite, thou