Hi Sam, The label "alpha" refers to an alpha release of the 3.5 branch, not an alpha version of 3.5.0. We typically only have bug fixes for the minor releases of a branch, and for 3.5, we have used alpha to say that the release is indeed unstable and that major changes could come with later releases of the branch.
I suppose we could have done 3.5.0-alpha, 3.5.0-beta, 3.5.0 or some similar sequence, but that isn't the current thinking afaict. -Flavio > On 21 Mar 2015, at 09:08, Sam Weisberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I am a little confused about the versioning of the 3.5 release branch. > When looking at the homepage, it sais the 3.5 release "is alpha quality" and > it is suffixed with a -alpha tag. > > When I first looked at the github releases[1] however, it seams to indicate > that there has already been a 3.5 release candidate and a 3.5 release. > In addition, the devs seem to be gearing up for a 3.5.1 release[2], which > would be curious if there was not even a stable 3.5.0 release. > There is also no longer an active milestone for 3.5.0 in Jira. > > Considering all that, I have a bit of trouble understanding the implications > of the -alpha suffix of the 3.5.0 release. > Can the 3.5.0 release be considered stable and is just not widely used? > I would appreciate it if someone could clarify this for me a bit. > > Cheers, > Sam > > [1] https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/releases > [2] > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/zookeeper-dev/201502.mbox/%3CCANLc_9JktxbnYuyW2EbvFEcRoaZWMsPf38YdoM=5jlwlusz...@mail.gmail.com%3E
