We definitely need to make sure our naming scheme will work with maven
properly.  Hopefully commons-foo:1.0 would supercede
commons-foo:1.0-M1.  Again, I really don't care what we call it, as
long as we manage expectations and don't dork up maven.

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Ate Douma <a...@douma.nu> wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 03:00 PM, James Carman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think "milestone" releases works if you have a clear development
>>> plan and schedule. I've never seen it be the case in Commons. Calling
>>> "releases" to Maven and dist, Alphas and Betas make more sense for us
>>> IMO.
>>>
>>
>> I don't care what we call it.  They key is that we set up the
>> expectation with our users.  If you use this release, do NOT use it in
>> production code.  It is not "supported", meaning we aren't going to
>> fix bugs in that alpha version if we have already released its
>> subsequent full release version (or a subsequent alpha).
>
>
> Indeed and agreed.
>
> I also don't care if its called milestone or alpha or whatever.
> But we already have explicit wording for milestone releases [1], also
> clearly stating such releases are not supported.
>
> So I'm actually only asking *confirmation* to use already established rules.
>
> [1] http://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html#Milestone_Releases
>
>
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