But please understand what this is about — when we go through the voting process in Apache, the vote may fail, which has happened several times and then we need to make fixes, produce a new release, and start the voting process again.
The question is how to distinguish between these vote candidates, I propose vc1, vc2, vc3, etc. What do you think? Gj On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, Christian Lenz <[email protected]> wrote: > Rc1-rc1 doesn’t make sense at all and is confusing. It still was confusing > for People for beta-rc1. There is no beta-rc in the wild. Either we have a > beta or RC but beta-rc? Wy we don’t use the build number for this or build > date? When you download the nightly, there is a Long number in the > titlebar, I think it was the date like NetBeans 9.0-dev-20180101 or smth > like that. So why not using beta-20180303 and for RC too? So everyone > knows, that this rc is the latest build or is 3 days old. > > My 2 cents > > > Cheers > > Chris > > Von: Wade Chandler > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Mai 2018 01:41 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: Where we are and where we are going with Apache NetBeans 9.0 > > I don’t like the rc1-rc1 bit. I think once one knows the reason it exists, > they can understand it, but a release candidate for a release candidate, is > just hard to say with a straight face IMO. I prefer the rc1-vc1 bit myself. > Either way, I think folks will ask what it means, but at least the words > for the shorthand match exactly what it is; voting candidate for a release > candidate versus RC for an RC. My couple pennies. > > Wade > > > On May 29, 2018, at 4:15 PM, Antonio <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 0 > > > > I don't see a problem with the "rc1-rc1", "rc1-rc2" approach. > > > > Cheers, > > Antonio > > > > On 29/05/18 22:03, Geertjan Wielenga wrote: > >> We’re going to continue to use the release90 branch. > >> The next — and hopefully last — release candidate before the final > release > >> of NB 9.0 will be rc2. > >> We will need to vote on that release in the Apache PPMC and IPMC just > like > >> all other releases. > >> There may be a need to vote multiple times, though we’re getting better > at > >> putting releases together and so, just like for the rc1, we may only > need > >> one round of votes. > >> Anyway, I propose we use the shortened names rc2-vc1, rc2-vc2, rc2-vc3, > >> i.e., ‘vc’ standing for ‘voting candidate’, these would be for an > assumed > >> three rounds of Apache voting for the rc2 release, though we’ll probably > >> only need rc2-vc1. > >> That is also the structure suggested by our mentor Bertrand. > >> The rc2 will be the releae on which the NetCAT and beyond Community > >> Acceptance survey will be done. > >> Unless there are objections, I propose we use this structure. If you > >> object, you should provide a counter proposal. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > > >
