Guys, When trying to release Apache Ignite 1.5.0 we came to conclusion that we had to proceed with EA version rather than with final release due to many reasons.
I think that everyone understands the purposes of EA versions and the advantages that we gain if we establish this process in a proper way. Now I see the following points. Let's discuss and put results on our project wiki. 1. Complex features will be released only through EA process, but point and/or patch releases may omit this step. 2. The first EA (EA1?) build can be released when upcoming release gets 100% code/feature complete and it is verified that build/deployment procedures work and TC is in green state. 3. EA version names should be the following: * apache-ignite-X.X.X-EA1 * apache-ignite-X.X.X-EA2 * ... * apache-ignite-X.X.X-EA15 Where X is a number. Index after EA makes ordering intuitive. 4. EA versions go through the same voting process as we have for release procedure now. E.g. apache-ignite-1.5.0-EA1-rc1 will be submitted and after approval "-rc1" part gets stripped. 5. I would prefer EA versions being available through maven. I know that there are different opinions on this and I know the reasoning for opinions, but from my standpoint this will save us from managing additional repos and make everything transparent. Thanks! --Yakov
