It's definitely alpha. There are so many variances at this point it
can't go out as a beta.
On 13-Jun-08, at 7:11 AM, Paul Gier wrote:
Mauro Talevi wrote:
Brett Porter wrote:
I believe we should start to knock these off, and prepare for an
alpha release as is, and wanted to see what others thought.
To cover the inevitable questions:
- Why release now?
163 fixes, 32 months since 2.0. 'Nuff said.
I would even make a 2.1-beta-1. Betas are by definition stable but
not final - and should not be treated as RCs. Alphas on the other
hand tend to less trusted by users - who are more reluctant to try
them out or use them in commercial projects.
Cheers
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I'm definitely in favor of a 2.1 release, but I think it should
remain an alpha and not switch to beta. A beta release is normally
supposed to be feature complete [1], and as Brett said there are
several feature branches that may be merged into 2.1 before the GA
release. It's probably better that uses won't trust the alpha
release quite as much, because I'm guessing there will be problems
that haven't been found yet. So it probably shouldn't be used for
production builds/releases yet.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle
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Thanks,
Jason
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