On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:31:53 +0200 Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote:
> No one imposed anything. No, contacting mentors and discussing with > individual people off-thread is not how Apache projects work. > > We have a long history in NetBeans outside Apache where we used the > term 'release candidate' to mean something very different to how it > is used in Apache, i.e., an overloading of terms. This was a way to > resolve it suggested by our mentors. That makes a bit more sense then. You did say in a previous post that it came from mentors. I did not understand it was advised by mentors as means to continue how Netbeans releases were handled before the move to Apache. Or some compromise. > And, you're not subscribed to this mailing lisy, I keep needing to > moderate you, I don't know why. But when you're not seeing your > e-mails here, it means I'm not on-line to moderate them. I was using wrong email. I have an email address specific for posting to lists I was not using. Thus receiving but sending under the wrong one. Very sorry!!! Thanks for forwarding on those posts! > I apologize for no one responding to those previous e-mails -- I > skipped over them because I think the right approach here in an > Apache project is to start a new thread with [PROPOSAL] or [DISCUSS] > or something like that, i.e., what you're asking for is actually a > new tagging strategy, rather than for a tag to be created with no > suffix for a specific release. I have asked for both, either a change to the current strategy. Or a simple duplicate tag. Which I felt was a compromise to satisfy all. > I also don't understand the entire context -- and having everything > hidden in e-mails doesn't help either. For example, Laszlo created > this, if you were to create something similar we'd all have a better > idea what we're talking about: I can see about creating a wiki page to cover the tagging of Netbeans. Not sure if that will help or not. I just assumed tagging software and the various suffixes were well known. I am just asking for things to be standardize. This pretty much covers it all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle The diagram enough should be suffice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#/media/File:Software_dev2.svg -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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