>> (maybe I missed something here) I checked the maven release process. the >> versioning is about the binary/source distribution, which we are doing the >> same thing, no? > maven.apache.org seems down right now :/. I'll check later. Ok, their release doc does say "The version used should be the eventual version with -RC1, -RC2, etc. appended.", but they don't seem to have been following this for a couple of years.
Guava, although not an apache project, uses the suffix https://github.com/google/guava/blob/v23.0-rc1/pom.xml. -Ivan
