I am +1 on both.
> On Nov 21, 2023, at 4:04 AM, Nikita Timofeev <ntimof...@objectstyle.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Wanted to share a couple of my thoughts about changes that could be good
> for Cayenne. And the first milestone release of Cayenne 5.0 could be a
> perfect target for these changes.
>
> 1. Get rid of the `server` part in the names everywhere, starting by
> renaming our core dependency from `cayenne-server` to just `cayenne`.
> As we already removed the `client` counterpart, `server` just doesn't make
> sense anymore.
>
> 2. Change of the versioning schema we use for the development cycle. A
> short version of the proposal: drop BETA versions, keep the version of
> snapshot build always the same, and slightly change format to articulate
> what is the actual version.
>
> Format would look like `MAJOR.MINOR-QUALIFIER`. Where the qualifier is one
> of `SNAPSHOT`, `M` for the milestone or `RC` for the release candidate.
>
> Example for the 5.0:
> - snapshot always stays as 5.0-SNAPSHOT
> - milestones releases are 5.0-M1, 5.0-M2 etc.
> - release candidates are 5.0-RC1, 5.0-RC2, etc.
> - and final release is just 5.0
>
> And here's a reason for that change. It solves two minor problems with the
> current schema. The first one is that all systems think that `B` goes
> before `M`, so our beta versions always look older than milestones. We are
> not that strict about what is beta nor are we enforcing any rules, so there
> should be no problems with that.
> The second one is that projects using SNAPSHOT versions should update
> dependency every time we make a dev release. Again not a big change and
> should not affect anything really, as there shouldn't be many projects
> brave enough to just use SNAPSHOT.
>
> Note this change does not affect overall versioning, e.g. patch versions
> like 5.0.1 or global updates like 5.1.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Nikita Timofeev
