The ASF press team wants to announce next week, so a 3-day vote right now might cancel the subject line of this thread :-)
Perhaps we can reach consensus in the DISCUSS thread or have a 24-hour vote? I agree with Stephan on 0.9.0.M1 (or 0.9.0-m1 or whatever), as it seems that other open source projects are using this naming scheme. Kostas On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote: > I think "Milestone" pretty much says that we have some crucial things in > there, but not all. "Beta" in comparison, has an "immature early version" > connotation. > > We are, for example, using a milestone 1 version of Jetty for the Web > Frontend, so that is a pretty standard thing, in my opinion: > > <dependency> > <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId> > <artifactId>jetty-server</artifactId> > <version>8.0.0.M1</version> > </dependency> > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Looks like we need to vote on 0.9-beta or 0.9-milestone. > > > > Can we find consensus whether to add a 1 after the name? -beta1 or > > -milestone1. > > Adding a 1 allows us to create a second beta/milestone release. > > > > I'm against adding a 1. > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Ufuk Celebi <u...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 26 Mar 2015, at 11:01, Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Two weeks have passed since we've discussed the 0.9 release the last > > > time. > > > > > > > > The ApacheCon is in 18 days from now. > > > > If we want, we can also release a "0.9.0-beta" release that contains > > > known > > > > bugs, but allows our users to try out the new features easily > (because > > > they > > > > are part of a release). The vote for such a release would be mainly > > about > > > > the legal aspects of the release rather than the stability. So I > > suspect > > > > that the vote will go through much quicker. > > > > > > +1 for 0.9-beta > > > > > >
