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 > > -- Karan Singh Malhi twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi
