One of the quirks of the Maven community, as seen from the outside, is the tendency to call things 'alpha' and 'beta'.
I think that this is confusing. Most people assume that an 'alpha' has significant instability, and should be used only by the few and the brave. Even a 'beta' would generally raise qualms about production. Yet we have things that drift along with those terms in their version numbers for years on end, and we even sometimes make the superpom default to them. In my view, anyone releasing something with one of these 'aged' alpha or beta versions should ask themselves if there's any good reason *not* to just declare '1.0'. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
