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We've ended up following guidance from our mentors, there are simply too many conflicting points of view throughout Apache. The craziness had to stop and so we're following the guidelines our Apache mentors have provided. Thanks, Gj On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 7:46 PM William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 07:14:58 +0200 > Geertjan Wielenga <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No > > YES!!!! > > > the Apache terminology is voting candidate. > > Just because Apache terminology is voting candidate. That does not mean > it should be tagged as such. I package quite a few Apache projects. > NONE use this crazy format of -vc*. Most Apache release are voted on. > > Please stick with common stuff, dev, alpha, beta, pre. For releases > there should be NO additional suffix. > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 7:06 AM László Kishalmi > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I meant: I'm not sure that we need to vote on this. It's more like > > > a beta. Shouldn't we have called it beta at first? Just for the > > > further release processes... > > Yes it should be a -beta or -pre, or something standard... > > Examples of other Apache release that were voted on and released > without crazy tags.... > > You can see Votes > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > No crazy -vc tags.... > https://github.com/apache/maven-resolver/releases > https://github.com/apache/maven/releases > > Some more apache projects > https://github.com/apache/tomcat/releases > https://github.com/apache/ant/releases > https://github.com/apache/commons-pool/releases > https://github.com/apache/commons-logging/releases > > I have never seen any Apache project use -vc for tagging a vote > candidate. They may exist, but the first time I recall seeing this was > with Apache Netbeans. Can anyone find another Apache project that has > -vc tags? If not then why is Netbeans doing this? > > This is what I had to do for 9.0. Nasty hidden change of version. > > https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/eclass/java-netbeans.eclass#L17 > > I have to do something similar for 10.0-vc1. Which I also have to add > some other prefix, as I cannot use 10.0 -> 10.0-vc1 like I do for 9.0. > As 10 is not fully released, there maybe another 10.0-vc*.... > > On github seems like 9.0 was never released.... What is the difference > between 9.0-vc* and 10.0-vc* ? Which one the release? Which one is > just a voting candidate? > https://github.com/apache/incubator-netbeans/releases > > If you must continue on with -vc tags. Please create another non -vc > tag for the actual release. You can have more than one tag for a given > commit. But really the -vc stuff is just confusing. It seems only > Netbeans is using this odd format. It is not standard. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > > >
