On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:58 PM, Arvind Prabhakar wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Ralph Goers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 have no objections to doing the work if we have consensus or policy > that guides it. The opinion on this thread is split and I do not want > to chose one over the other. Hence am following what has been done in > the project before. > >> >> 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. > > For the reasons stated above - lack of consensus or guiding policy. > Since you feel very strongly about this, I suggest you help establish > a policy by calling a vote on this. My only request to you would be to > not block this release waiting for the policy to be established.
Sure - as an example of an existing policy you can look at http://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html#Release_Numbers. Release votes can't be vetoed so one person cannot block them. I would only vote -1 if I found something wrong with the release such as a missing notice or license. However, I might vote -0.5 on something like this. Ralph
