Agreed. I've have a few managers express concern about the usage of the term 'alpha' and 'beta' etc.
-Chris On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]>wrote: > 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] > >
