Just for info, JBoss guys use to suffix releases with "GA" (General Availability)"hibernate-3.4.0.GA" for example
2009/8/28 Andrew Bowers <abow...@google.com> > The current problem we are trying to solve is that it is hard to know which > build is a major release for those who aren't intimate. > For 1.6, the golden release was 1.6.4, which is thoroughly confusing to a > general user who doesn't follow the development cycle. If you only care > about the final release, you expect that you would migrate to 1.6.0 as the > final release and 1.6.1 would be an update to that. > > If someone is commenting > on a bug in a pre-release build, something labeled 1.6.0-RC1, then they will > know what build they are using. If they don't, then they probably shouldn't > be using it. > > I strongly believe this use case trumps the other issues. > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Scott Blum <sco...@google.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Kelly Norton <knor...@google.com> wrote: >> >>> fwiw, I've never found myself sorting GWT distros but I do find myself >>> wanting to uniquely identify them all the time. Why do you think people will >>> be so eager to ignore part of the label? I would actually be surprised if >>> any form of naming fixes the few incidences of the conversation you mention. >>> I tend to think those are because people really do think they are using the >>> release ... only to realize later they never updated their project. >>> >> >> Heh, sorry, that was probably not the best way of making this point: I >> think more obvious is usually better, because you don't have to think about >> it. This means less wasted time, and less chance of confusion. >> >> Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the current system is perfect or that >> we shouldn't change it. I'm sure there are better things than we're doing >> right now, which might help with the problem of identifying a release vs. a >> milestone or rc. But I do think a system where the numeric portion of the >> version is non-unique invites confusion. >> >> What if we were more consistent with the parentheticals, like in the GWT >> release >> notes<http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/releases/1.7/distro-source/core/src/release_notes.html> >> ? >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
