On Feb 1, 2013, at 2:34 AM, Tom White wrote: > Possibly the reason for Stack's consternation is that this is a > Hadoop-specific versioning scheme, rather than a standard one like > Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/) which is more widely > understood. > > With that scheme we would have something like > > 2.0.0-alpha, 2.0.0-alpha.1, 2.0.0-alpha.2, 2.0.0-alpha.3, 2.0.0-beta, 2.0.0 > > so that the alpha and beta tags all precede the 2.0.0 GA release, > which is the one that we make compatibility promises for. > > Whereas Arun is proposing > > 2.0.0-alpha, 2.0.1-alpha, 2.0.2-alpha, 2.1.0-alpha, 2.2.0-beta, 2.3.0 >
Would it better to have 2.0.3-alpha, 2.0.4-beta and then make 2.1 as a stable release? I'm ok either way, but I want to just make a decision and move on to making the release asap, appreciate a quick resolution. thanks, Arun
