Any others? I need some more convincing :) That Hazelcast does it doesn't mean that it's correct SW Engineering practice. Perhaps they don't have a public Maven repo (probably that's the reason) where they can publish their EA in a staging area. The ASF does (advantage) and therefore we can use this facility.
Moreover that nomenclature is horrible. It ties them up to a single EA. What if it comes out with a blocking bug that impedes testing? They'd need to release a second EA, and that's not taken into account. On 30 Nov 2015 18:50, "Sergey Kozlov" <skoz...@gridgain.com> wrote: > Hi > > Some companies provide EA releases in maven: > > > https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/hazelcast/hazelcast/3.6-EA/ > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > 1. I see nothing wrong in having EA perpetually available. I would even > > > prefer all vendors to keep all EA versions available just for tracking > > and > > > history purposes. > > > > > > > We have opposite views here. To me, early access versions are ephemeral. > > They are only legit until the final version is released. By doing that, > you > > run the risk that "forgetful" users who once tried an EA, keep using it > > forever even after GA is released. > > > > In other words, what you are proposing to do – to push an EA to Maven > > Central – is equivalent to Microsoft packaging Windows 11 Early Access > in a > > box and putting it on sale forever. And keeping it on sale even after > > Windows 11 GA, Windows 12 GA, Windows 13 GA (Americans would probably > skip > > that :)), etc. are released decades after. > > > > No company or project does that, to my knowledge. I would consider it an > > anti-pattern. > > > > Regards, > > > > *Raúl Kripalani* > > PMC & Committer @ Apache Ignite, Apache Camel | Integration, Big Data and > > Messaging Engineer > > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk > > > > > > -- > Sergey Kozlov >
