'Releases happen "when they are ready."
From a user perspective, what you saw about votes of committers is all there is to go on. Committers -- and especially the release manager -- make a judgement call about the relative risk of the patches that have been applied since the preceeding beta, and decides whether or not the next release should be called a beta or not. (You should know that, for Tomcat versions < 4.1, the difference between a beta and a final release is basically wrapped up in what the release manager proposes -- there is not really any quantitative difference in the amount of pre-release testing that goes on, so waiting for the "final" release and hoping it is higher quality, simply because of that label, is pretty silly.)
For Tomcat 4.1.x, the Tomcat developers have adopted a version labelling scheme similar to that used for the Apache web server, and several other Jakarta projects -- a version "4.1.x" release will be made without any label that implies quality. After the release has been in the field for a while, it will be declared "alpha", "beta", "release", or "abandoned" (if a showstopper bug occurs). On this basis, the 4.1.3 release was declared to be "beta" quality based on the feedback of those who tested it, and didn't find any showstopper bugs. There are still things on the TODO list, or it would have been declared final.'
-Tim
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
Howdy, That question should be on the FAQ as well ;) Like all other Apache releases, the basic answer is no. It'll be ready when it's ready. You can help accelerate by downloading alpha/beta versions, using them, and reporting any bugs you find. You can help even more by contributing patches, etc.
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
-----Original Message----- From: Euan Guttridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:58 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Tomcat 5 - validation and compilation
Thanks Tim and Yoav. Is there a release date for a 5.0 stable release?
-----Original Message----- From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 June 2003 14:47 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat 5 - validation and compilation
Howdy, It's still a work in progress. You can look at the CVS HEAD for tomcat
5
if you'd like. The main deployer implementation is pretty much done, the standalone deployer with validation is not 100% done yet. The documentation for either is not 100% done yet.
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
-----Original Message----- From: Euan Guttridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 9:48 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Tomcat 5 - validation and compilation
In the Tomcat home page under Tomcat 5.x,
"Refactored application deployer, with an optional standalone deployer allowing validation and compilation of a web application before
putting
it
in production"
- Can someone point me to the documentation about this please?
Thanks Euan
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