Hi, Since I've been involved with Tomcat: - Release announcements have included the Release Manager's opinion of stability (alpha/beta/stable), - Release announcements were made to tomcat-dev, tomcat-user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - No "release candidate" terminology" was used or implied - About a week after the release was made available, a formal vote was done on tomcat-dev to certify or change the stability rating.
For a while after I started cutting releases, I followed the same process. With 5.0.28 and 5.5, I changed it a bit, to reflect the fact that: - 5.0.x is stable, we expect minor bugfix and maintenance releases to be stable - 5.5.x is unstable at this point, we expect all releases to be alpha until the first stable release is announced. The voting process has not changed, nor has the announcement process. All of this is since I became involved: I can't peak for how Tomcat 3.x releases were done. It may also be that connector releases follow a slightly different paradigm (I haven't, and don't plan to, cut any connector releases myself). All that said, I'm not sure what the best path forward is. There are different release numbering approaches between different ASF projects, and even within the Jakarta project itself. Tomcat, as one of the most mature Jakarta projects, might be getting closer to the Apache httpd or Ant release numbering scheme, where releases are expected to be stable except for a brand new branch. Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Keith Wannamaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:06 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Version announcements > >I have a question about the consensus of verion announcements. > >My understanding/recollection of the process is to only announce release >canidates on tomcat-dev, then after some time a vote is taken on >a/b/stable, then the resulting version is announced via jakarta-announce >with the appropriate rating, and the web site was updated. > >Lately the 5.x process seems to be to put release canidates on the >website and announce them on a variety of lists before a stability >rating vote is taken, cf >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=109378770730995&w=2 > >Was this a concious policy change or is it up to the whim of the RM? > >Keith > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
