Le 05/04/16 00:04, Julian Hyde a écrit : > Has anyone commented that on your release naming policy? Maybe you’ve got a > good reason for including “RC” in release names, but I wanted to point out > that they look strange to people. > > Josh Elser just included Kerby 1.0.0-RC2 in Apache Calcite’s Avatica > sub-project[1], and my first reaction was, “Why is he including a release > candidate as a dependency?” We have a policy of not depending on release > candidates or snapshots. In Apache, a release candidate has not necessarily > passed a vote, At The ASF *EVERY* single release passed a vote. Always. That of course includes RC.
A Release Candidate is just a pre-GA version : we think we are almost done, but we would be sure not to miss obvious bugs before going to GA, just for the sake of providing a stable and production ready product. > so is not necessarily “clean” from an IP standpoint. They *are* clean. We don't release if it's not clean from an IP standpoint.
