If we release a 3.0.0 version, people will consider it stable, no matter how you mark it. E.g. people looking at Maven Central won't even notice that marker. I'm somewhat -1 for a 3.0.0 version at this point.
Why don't we release as 3.0.0-alpha-1? Cheers, -- Richard > On 20.01.2017, at 15:26, Marshall Schor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, my current thought is to do a 3.0.0 release, and "mark" it in the > announce > email and in the news and on the download page as being "alpha" level quality. > > The intent is that it is an official release from an Apache point of view so > many more people can try it out and give feedback :-), while acknowledging > that > it's "early" in the quality-hardening cycle. > > -Marshall > > > On 1/20/2017 3:26 AM, Peter Klügl wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> what happens when there are three +1 votes? Will there be a 3.0.0 release? >> >> >> This would be of course OK for me, just asking. I am quite busy these >> days, could take some time until I can review it. >> >> >> (I assume that it could be a bit complicated/error-prone/undesirable to >> change the version of the RC afterwards to alpha) >> >> >> Best, >> >> >> Peter >> >> >> Am 19.01.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Marshall Schor: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here's RC3. The changes from RC2 involved JCasGen for the new built-in >>> types; >>> they were missing from tables JCasGen uses to construct the proper imports. >>> >>> ----------- >>> >>> If you happen to use JCas in your pipelines, and have JCas classes other >>> than >>> the standard built-in ones, these classes will need to be regenerated or >>> migrated. If you use the Maven JCasGen plugin to generate the JCas classes >>> as >>> part of your project's build, your good - nothing special need be done. >>> >>> There is a migration tool, and there are scripts to run it, as well as >>> Eclipse >>> launch configurations to run it. The instructions for running this are in >>> a new >>> documentation "book", part of the binary distribution (html and pdf) - it's >>> called the Uima V3 User's Guide. >>> >>> The guide also has an overview section which lists the new features of this >>> release. Many of these need more test cases written for them; I'm happy to >>> mentor any volunteers who want to improve the testing . >>> >>> The list of changes in Jira: >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20UIMA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%203.0.0SDK-alpha >>> >>> The source and binary zip/tars and the Eclipse update site are staged to >>> >>> http://home.apache.org/~schor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc3/ >>> <http://home.apache.org/%7Eschor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc3/> >>> >>> The Maven artifacts are here: >>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheuima-1116/ >>> >>> The SVN tags are here: >>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/uima/uimaj/tags/uimaj-3.0.0/ >>> >>> and for the Eclipse Update Site: >>> http://home.apache.org/~schor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc3/eclipse-update-site/ >>> <http://home.apache.org/%7Eschor/uima-release-candidates/uv3-alpha-rc3/eclipse-update-site/> >>> >>> Please vote on release: >>> >>> [ ] +1 OK to release >>> [ ] 0 Don't care >>> [ ] -1 Not OK to release, because ... >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> -Marshall >>> >> >
