Ahh. That makes a lot more sense; thanks. I'll amend my patch and attach it again in a bit.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 16/09/2016 13:59, Coty Sutherland wrote: >> I'm not sure where to file a bug for this, but I produced a first pass >> at a patch to update the page. I'm not sure I have a solid grasp on >> why we're doing milestones in tc9 (other than to prevent a bunch of >> revisions from being releases pre-beta) so this might need some >> changes to convey the intent a bit better. > > Version numbers aren't the concern. > > Think of it as: > - Milestone - Specification JARs not complete > - Alpha - Specification JARs complete, other stuff (including the > implementation of the specification) not complete > - Beta - Feature complete, not production ready > - Stable - Production ready > > Once the spec is final getting to Alpha is pretty easy. Historically, we > haven't been this far ahead of the curve before. We've usually been > playing catch up so we've started with Alpha. > > Does that help? > > Mark > > >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >>> On 15 September 2016 16:32:36 BST, Coty Sutherland <csuth...@redhat.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm getting quite a few questions on freenode in #tomcat about the >>>> versioning scheme for tomcat 9. I looked at the >>>> http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html page and it has some good >>>> information there, but it doesn't mention what the milestone releases >>>> are or how they fit into the alpha/beta/stable releases. Can we add >>>> some information there to help users better understand the milestone >>>> releases (if that is going to continue to be a thing) and how they fit >>>> into the lifecycle? >>>> >>>> I can open a bug for it, but wanted to get an opinion on whether or >>>> not this is something that we want to do. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Coty >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> Current plan is milestones until the specs are final. Depending on what >>> happens with JavaEE 7 we might need to rethink that. We should know more >>> after Java One. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
