Confusing! What's wrong with Alpha, Beta and Release? A release candidate is our internal bits before it gets to A, B, or R.
Gary On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe we can call the "release candidate" a "candidate release", while the > traditional RC is still an RC. So in this case, we do CRs for the official > release (which I believe was how you suggested naming tags). > > On 23 September 2014 11:40, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A beta release is exactly the same as a “regular” release. Just change >> the version in the pom to 2.1-beta1. >> >> As for getting multiple versions on the site, other projects do that. >> Maven does it for older versions. It should just be a matter of copying >> the template they use. >> >> IMO the only reason to do a beta is if their are new features that we >> consider to be not-quite-ready for production. On the other hand, I >> consider an RC to be believed to be production ready but requiring >> additional feedback. FWIW - I find RCs a bit confusing since we vote on a >> “release candidate” with every release. >> >> Ralph >> >> On Sep 23, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Perhaps we can all take time until this weekend to clean up and polish >> before you cut an RC... on Friday? >> >> Gary >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I know that the work I was doing on log4j-web can wait for 2.2, so no >>> objections for going ahead with 2.1 from me. >>> >>> On 22 September 2014 19:25, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Gary mentioned that in Commons they have multiple versions on the site >>>> so he suggested using that profile/maven plugin. That said, this may not be >>>> easy and will probably be significant work. >>>> >>>> As Gary said, we're all in agreement we can do a 2.1 release, so >>>> there's no need to look into the implications of the beta idea further. >>>> >>>> Are there any items we still want to include in this release? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On 2014/09/23, at 8:25, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Matt, >>>> >>>> It seems like the consensus is to skip a beta. >>>> >>>> You may want to send a [poll] email and get a more formal feel for it. >>>> >>>> Gary >>>> >>>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> How would I even be able to release the beta artifacts? The "release" >>>>> profile doesn't seem appropriate. >>>>> >>>>> On 22 September 2014 12:15, Remko Popma <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'm also fine with just doing a 2.1 and following up with 2.1.x >>>>>> releases if issues are found. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Unless we have some way to have more than one release on the site, >>>>>>> making it 2.1 might be our best bet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 22 September 2014 11:01, Remko Popma <[email protected]> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Do we need to have a 2.1-beta release, or shall we just do a 2.1 >>>>>>>> release (and follow up with 2.1.1 etc if issues are found)? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When are we aiming to do this release? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> There are still ~10 open Jira tickets targetting 2.1. >>>>>>>> Please take a look to see if that list is up to date. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >>>> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >>>> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >>>> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >>>> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >>>> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >>>> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >>>> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Matt Sicker <[email protected]> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition >> <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> >> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> >> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >> >> >> > > > -- > Matt Sicker <[email protected]> > -- E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
