Just throwing this out there, but other projects use 1.0 as an indicator of feature completeness. Is that the implication we want to make by labeling this as 1.0.0-xxx?
I feel that a pre-1.0.0 number such as 0.10.0 might be more apt. Jon. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Arvind Prabhakar <[email protected]> wrote: > The policy documents pointed out by Ralph states the following: > > <quote> > Releases that only represent a project milestone and are intended only > for bleeding-edge developers working outside the project are called > "alpha" > </quote> > > This is completely inline with where we are with the Flume NG branch > and would be an appropriate release artifact to help enable the > borader community to help test and validate its design. > > I am a strong +1 on going forward with the 1.0.0-alpha-1 release. > > Thanks, > Arvind > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Ralph Goers > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Take a look at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what as well as > the section that follows it. Releases are the only approved way of > delivering our software to end users. While we can suggest that they check > it out from subversion and try it in practice that doesn't usually get a > lot of traction and it is a bit more difficult to report issues. > > > > I also recommend going through with the release as it is an important > step in moving through the incubator. It is expected that issues will occur > during the release and having problems occur on an alpha release is less of > a problem then on a GA release. > > > > In short, I highly recommend a release. > > > > Ralph > > > > On Nov 29, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Eric Sammer wrote: > > > >> All: > >> > >> I wanted to kick off a conversation around producing an alpha release of > >> the Flume NG branch. The goal would be to create a downloadable artifact > >> for people to test and play with without needing to build the project > from > >> source. For lack of a better name, I'm proposing we call this > >> flume-1.0.0-alpha1. This isn't a formal vote, but a straw man > discussion. > >> What do people think? Discuss! > >> > >> Thanks! > >> -- > >> Eric Sammer > >> twitter: esammer > >> data: www.cloudera.com > > > -- // Jonathan Hsieh (shay) // Software Engineer, Cloudera // [email protected]
