Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-27 Thread Christian Geisert
J.Pietschmann schrieb: Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't know of any such convention. I've seen various variants: rc, beta, previews etc. I think we're free to choose. I'd rather go for "alpha". "rc" means "release candidate", meaning Yes 0.90-alpha sounds like version number Christian

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 26.07.2005 21:51:03 Simon Pepping wrote: > I think that the first production release should be on parity with > 0.20.5, unless we can advertise that the gains in new features > outweigh the loss of features. The very first release does not have to > satisfy that criterion, so we can do that soo

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I don't know of any such convention. I've seen various variants: rc, beta, previews etc. I think we're free to choose. I'd rather go for "alpha". "rc" means "release candidate", meaning features and APIs are stable, and I don't think HEAD is there already. Other than tha

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 26.07.2005 17:22:28 The Web Maestro wrote: > Before we actually move to make this release, I'd like to understand > the discrepancies between 0.20.5 and the proposed 0.9rc1 release of > TRUNK a bit better. Yes, that's an important point. > I was under the impression that the first TRUNK >

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread Simon Pepping
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:22:28AM -0700, The Web Maestro wrote: > The thought of having a release from the TRUNK branch is very exciting. > I agree that releasing as 0.9rc1 (or 0.9b1, since we may not yet be at > release candidate stage or 0.9xx1) makes sense, and tells the world > we've moved

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread The Web Maestro
The thought of having a release from the TRUNK branch is very exciting. I agree that releasing as 0.9rc1 (or 0.9b1, since we may not yet be at release candidate stage or 0.9xx1) makes sense, and tells the world we've moved past the 0.20.5 stage, which our project and community desperately needs

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread Jeremias Maerki
I don't know of any such convention. I've seen various variants: rc, beta, previews etc. I think we're free to choose. Starting with a couple of preview releases would IMO be good to inform people that the release is not supposed to be used in production, yet. A release candidate is more like a pr

Re: Flame-fodder: Thinking about starting to release again....

2005-07-26 Thread Chris Bowditch
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Another thing, that I'd like to bring up. We're approaching a state where FOP Trunk code is usable for more serious use cases. The important FOs are all implemented. In the past, we talked about making 1.0 meet XSL 1.0 Basic Conformance. I believe to do that would be bad f