Rick Hillegas wrote: > I'm getting dangerously close to building a beta candidate from the new > branch. However, I'm confused about release numbering and the beta bit. > > 1) If no one objects, I'd like to change my mind and call this candidate > 10.2.0.5 beta. For purely esthetic reasons, I'd like to shoot for > calling the first release candidate 10.2.1.0. > > 2) And now for the beta flag. The instructions at > http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbySnapshotOrRelease tell me to make > sure the beta flag is set to true in release.properties. It turns out > that the flag is already set to true. When I build, the resulting > sysinfo claims that the code is alpha, not beta. The release id is > "10.2.0.5 alpha - (430831:430834)". This looks peculiar. What file needs > to be tweeked to give this a beta rather than an alpha name?
The zero in the third position forces alpha. Covered here: http://db.apache.org/derby/papers/versionupgrade.html So I think you need 10.2.1.x beta Dan.
