On 14/05/2012 01:03, sebb wrote: > On 12 May 2012 23:59, Emmanuel Lécharny <elecha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Le 5/12/12 1:42 AM, sebb a écrit : >> >>> On 11 May 2012 16:29, Francesco Chicchiriccò<ilgro...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> I've created a 1.0.0-RC1-incubating release, with the following artifacts >>>> up for a vote: >>>> >>>> SVN source tag ( r1335495): >>>> >>>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/syncope/tags/syncope-1.0.0-RC1-incubating/ >>> If this is the second attempt, why is it called RC1 ? >>> >>> Surely it should be called RC2 ? >> Depends. As the first vote has been canceled, there was nothing like an >> official RC1. > RC means Release candidate; if the vote passes, it becomes the release. >> As noted in the subject, this is the 2nd attempt for RC1. > Does not make sense. > > The second attempt is the second release candidate, i.e. RC2.
We agreed on a version scheme where RCi are full releases (from release process point of view) while not including everything planned on JIRA for the corresponding version: hence, our 1.0.0-RC1-incubating doesn't have all fixes planned for 1.0.0-incubating. In other words, RC1 is referring to the completeness of the code against the issues, not to the completeness of the release against the release requirements. At least, this is how we defined Syncope release numbering scheme; moreover, it seems to me that every project is defining its own versioning ([1] [2] [3] for example), and I personally think it's correct. Release numbers are just labels, after all, isn't it? Anyway, is there also other IPMC available to check the release to bind his vote? Thanks! Regards. [1] http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html [2] http://commons.apache.org/releases/versioning.html [3] http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html -- Francesco Chicchiriccò Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC Member http://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/
