This is a great point David. Nice catch with the version number. This
is a brand new product and versioning should start with 1.0.
+1 for the version change.

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:03 PM, David Blevins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just remember a thought I had before going to bed last night....
>
> Calling Apache TomEE a 4.0.0-beta-1 is a big mistake.
>
> Should be Apache TomEE a 1.0.0-beta-1.
>
> I think we're probably working against ourselves by not making it as new and 
> exciting as possible.  Some people might be confused "4.0? why haven't I 
> heard of this before, it must suck" whereas no one will be confused by 1.0.  
> Are we trying to launch and old and established and mature product or 
> something new and exciting?
>
> I now remember thinking just at that moment before falling asleep .. "well, 
> you can always increase the version number later, but you can never decrease 
> it."  Seems like if we regret calling 4.x in the future, we'll never be able 
> to fix it.  At least with 1.x, we can still do what we want at a future date.
>
>
> So in that vein I'm going to roll a version with the 1.0.0-beta-1 version.   
> I have a fixed batch of binaries with the 4.0.0-beta-1 version number staged 
> and ready to go:
>
>  https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheopenejb-016/
>
> If we don't like the feel of 1.0.0-beta-1, we can release the above set of 
> binaries and the tag.
>
>
>
> -David
>
>



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