Also: there's Twitter poll that's convenient: https://twitter.com/fasterxml/status/1238519171350069250
and may be better way to handle this. For those not on TWTR, I'll count your votes too. :) -+ Tatu +- On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:34 AM Tatu Saloranta <t...@fasterxml.com> wrote: > > I am finally hoping to (soon, very soon!) release the first (and > possibly only) pre-release version of Jackson 2.11. But due to > problems with earlier choice of qualifier -- "pr" (for pre-release) > is, alas, NOT something Maven recognizes as per: > > https://octopus.com/blog/maven-versioning-explained > > and as a result, earlier use of `2.10.0.pr1` (or `.pre1`) did lead to > unfortunate problem of `2.10.0` being sorted "before" pre-release > candidates. This is only resolved with 2.10.1 becoming "later" than > `2.10.0.pr1`. > > As a result I created issue: > > https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2479 > > to decide on what to use instead. Since I hope to get this decided > quickly (does not seem like something to discuss for weeks :) ), I > suggest 3 options that are my top choices: > > * alpha, beta (, delta, gamma) -- 2.11.0.alpha > * rc1, rc2 (, rc3, ...) ["release candidate"] -- 2.11.0.rc1 > * m1, m2 (, m3, ...) ["milestone"] -- 2.11.0.m1 > > and would like to hear if anyone has a preference to share, points to > make, to select the convention Jackson project should use. > > To me it seems that "rc1" might be the most commonly used for Java > libraries, but I think I have seen all 3 styles in use. > > Also note: > > 1. all these choices will sort before (be considered "older") than > actual official "2.11.0" (tested briefly, all documentation confirms) > 2. I have seen some projects (Hibernate?) use "Final" or "GA" as > qualifier (like, "2.11.0.GA"), but I do not see a point for doing > that. > 3. Use of hyphen "-" would otherwise be fine ("2.11.0-rc1") but in the > past it has been reported to be problematic for OSGi. This is why > "all-dots" notation has been, and is planned to be, used. > > So. WDYT? > > -+ Tatu +- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jackson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10jjD%2BMA9ZZmNyY3FJws7dB1emMOKaAC_6m5oSYNbf_0%3Dg%40mail.gmail.com.
