Il mar 12 nov 2019, 13:01 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> ha scritto:
> I'm a little nervous about this is being messages to and being > understood by developers. How stable is a milestone release? If it's > not stable, they shouldn't be seeing as abroad an adoption as they > are. If it is stable, then why not give it a full release as 3.0.0. > (or whatever) and add more in 3.1.0, 3.2.0, etc.? > I totally agree with this point. Personally I don't like milestones as we are doing with plugins, it is very confusing for users. If the plugin is good to be used in 'production' (in every day work) than we should not call it -Mx. If we know it has problems but some user needs it we can call it 'beta'. Enrico > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 6:51 AM Tibor Digana <tibordig...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi Elliotte, > > > > I am also using milestones in Surefire, as you may have noticed, because > > the complete work is too big and for one release. > > As for instance, milestones are fantastic for the major versions like in > > 3.0.0 because it is the only chance when you can break some backwards > > compatibility in plugin configuration. > > That's our case. For instance the system properties for config parameters > > of plugins share the same because they do not have prefixes. So i put the > > prefix in the system property and that's what i break, a little. It was > > just an example, but this is the principle that i understand and we > > untilize it in the milestones. > > > > T > > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 7:55 PM Elliotte Rusty Harold < > elh...@ibiblio.org> > > wrote: > > > > > What is the significance of the M2/M3 classifier in the version > > > string? It's not obvious to me whether this is a release version or > > > not. > > > > > > Is there a reason not to call this simply 3.0.0 or 3.0.1? > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 1:50 PM Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've seen there are a lot of fixes in the meantime in the current > state > > > > so I would like to cut a release and the end of the week. > > > > > > > > So if someone has any objections please raise your hand. > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Karl Heinz Marbaise > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Elliotte Rusty Harold > > > elh...@ibiblio.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > -- > Elliotte Rusty Harold > elh...@ibiblio.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
