I never shared my actual preference :)
I'm happy with either milestones or httpd-style. I'm starting to get a
leaning towards the latter.
- Brett
On 12/05/2008, at 6:04 AM, Olivier Lamy wrote:
Hi,
I prefer the httpd style too (but no real issue with the maven one).
A release is a release. IHMO we don't need to use some "marketing"
names
:-).
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Olivier
2008/5/11 Wendy Smoak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
We've been discussing how to version releases over at Archiva, and
seem to have settled on milestones -> final -> patch releases. No
more -alpha and -beta designations in the filename.
Brett summarized the options and gave his opinions:
- Maven style (alpha, beta, final, point release)
- Eclipse style (M1, M2, M3, final, point release - though Eclipse
don't
have the last ones) [Spring style then? -ws]
- httpd style (.0.0, .0.1, .0.2, .0.3)
And here are [Brett's] opinions:
- I'm tired of the Maven style. I've heard people actually saying
it's ok
to break things because it's just an alpha. I would rather encourage
development practices that mean every release should be production
quality.
- But I'm a realist - releases need broader testing to assess
production
quality.
- milestones seem more akin to a set roadmap per release that gets
done
in stages, rather than timeboxing
- httpd-style can be a little confusing to users, at least at
first (will
the real release please stand up?). I think this is mitigated by only
putting the final final releases on release repo and mirrors
- httpd-style is not very effective for "milestones", since you
end up
making the 20th or 30th release your first "real" release
- Hudson uses the extreme of the last style (everything is a feature
release, everything is a final release)
My preference is httpd-style, where it's just a number and you
apply a
quality designation afterwards. But I can live with
milestones. :) I
_don't_ like baking the quality into the version number.
Any thoughts on this for Continuum, before we simply go on using the
strategy we inherited from Maven?
--
Wendy
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Brett Porter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/
