You already do know the reason why. I told you already -- in the NetBeans ecosystem, a 'release candidate' is something different to what it is in Apache. I can explain it all, but there's no point -- we didn't want to confuse things and we were confused ourselves, since again, all of this is new to us. And so we were using the 'release candidate' term in a different way that it's used in Apache. If we can do it better or help or tweak things, let's do it. Typically when something seems 'simple and straight forward', it's not simple and straightforward at all.
Gj On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:00 PM William L. Thomson Jr. <wlt...@o-sinc.com> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 20:47:23 +0200 > Geertjan Wielenga <geertjan.wiele...@googlemail.com.INVALID> wrote: > > > I don't think there's a need to point to Wikipedias about what a > > software release cycle is, do you? :-) > > I was just trying to express any wiki page I would create on netbeans > tagging would follow that format _dev, _alpha, _beta, _rc. It would be > redundant like providing a link to that page :) > > Or like others I have provided say from Gentoo. The ebuild file format, > maps almost directly to a given version. Which is where I have to keep > being creative for Netbeans. > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules > > This is nasty! If its 9.0 -> 9.0-vc3, if its 10.0_rc1 -> 10.0-vc1 > > https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/os-xtoo/blob/master/eclass/java-netbeans.eclass#L26 > > > The problem we're trying to solve is how to name voting candidates > > for the Apache process whereby the initial candidates for release > > tend to, especially in a large project like NetBeans, get rejected > > and then new voting candidates need to be created with clearly > > distinguished names. > > It seems all other Apache projects use -rc for that. If your voting, > tag it -rc*, if that vote fails. Then increment the number of the -rc. > > To me it seems pretty simple and straight forward. Not sure why its > such a problem that needs discussing and solving. Even Apache's own > documentation says that RCs should be voted on. > > Release Candidate > A source package and other accompanying artifacts to be inspected > and voted on in order to release. > https://www.apache.org/foundation/glossary.html#ReleaseCandidate > > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. >
