Hey Brian, As Owen mentioned, we typically 'promote' a release to be stable after it's deemed to be stable. As a result, we can't change the bits and hence we don't have alpha/beta tags for release versions.
Arun On Nov 1, 2011, at 5:07 AM, Brian Bockelman wrote: > Hi Arun, > > (Changed the subject line, as I seem to recall that we are not supposed to > have discussion in a voting thread) > > Dumb question perhaps, but why call it "0.23.0" instead of "0.23.0-alpha1" if > it is distinctly alpha quality? > > I've seen lots of folks on the support list who are obviously in over their > head because they started with the latest release posted on the webpage, > regardless of whether the project considered it a stable release. By adding > "-alpha1", it's still available to upstream projects but ought to scare away > the inexperienced. > > Thanks, > > Brian > > On Nov 1, 2011, at 4:47 AM, Arun C Murthy wrote: > >> I've created a release candidate for hadoop-0.23.0 that I would like to >> release. >> >> It is available at: http://people.apache.org/~acmurthy/hadoop-0.23.0-rc0/ >> >> hadoop-0.23 has significant new features: HDFS Federation and NextGen >> MapReduce being the highlights. >> >> It's also very early in the 0.23 life-cycle and the release is distinctly >> 'alpha' quality and is not intended to be stable release right-away. The >> plan is to deploy this to smallish (500+ nodes) clusters and to start >> hardening it. This should also help downstream projects (Pig, Hive, HBase) >> start testing against the 0.23 line. Expect to see more bug-fix releases of >> the branch-0.23 in the forthcoming weeks (0.23.1 etc.) >> >> Please try the release and vote; the vote will run for the usual 7 days. >> >> thanks, >> Arun >
