On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Ethan Jewett <[email protected]> wrote: > I would not put the letters "RC" into an actual Apache release. In my > mind, there is only one release. Release Candidates (RCs) are test > releases that are floated to the group to enable thorough testing and > review, but they are *not* Apache releases. (I welcome being corrected > by mentors and people who know better than me here. :-)
Don't get carried away by the apparent clash in a "release" being actually a "candidate": one thing is what constitutes an Apache release (that is the community taking responsibility and producing a public artifact - sort of going on the record, if you like), quite another is the intended scope and audience. Alphas, betas, RCs and whatnot are still releases as they need to follow the Apache release process: as a mentor, I'm expecting this community to understand how the release process always has to dot every i and cross every t when it comes the legal and process bits, while the technical part is left to you guys - my suggestion to use a RC naming scheme basically means that the technical/QA bar might be lower than when it comes to telling your user base you reached the status of golden master. Ciao, -- Gianugo Rabellino M: +44 779 5364 932 / +39 389 44 26 846 Sourcesense - making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com
