On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:32 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > We have already made a lesser stable release (version > 1.0.0-incubating) that was labeled as alpha in the RELEASE-NOTES file > that accompanied it.
Yes - and not putting -alpha in the version was a mistake. > From this thread, I see that the consensus is to > call the 1.1.0 release a beta. > > I would therefore like to proceed with the release, with the official > version 1.1.0-incubating, and specifically labeled as "beta" in the > release notes. Since we are not calling it a 1.1.0-incubating-stable > or 1.1.0-incubating-GA, we do not risk implying the stability or > correctness of the released artifacts. Please, please, please go look at Maven Central. Rarely will you find 1.1.0-GA (User's dislike that immensely). But you will find tons of 1.1.0-beta1, 1.1.0-beta2, etc. The way people expect this is that we would have had a 1.0.0-alpha1, 1.0.0-alpha2 and then 1.0.0-beta1, 1.0.0-beta2. We didn't do that. We should start now. When it is considered not to be a beta then 1.1.0 should be released. I'm having a hard time understanding why you really want to do this so differently than what the vast majority of other projects do. Ralph
