Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Rainer Jung
On 25.08.2010 20:57, Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/25/2010 11:15 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers why not have a tag progression that

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers > Okay. Does that mean that: > [DIR] v6.0.2-alpha/ 2006-11-16 00:02- > [DIR] v6.0.2-beta/2006-11-16 00:02- > [DIR] v6.0.2/

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/25/2010 11:15 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers > >> why not have a tag progression that looks like this: >

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Mark Thomas
On 25/08/2010 16:23, Christopher Schultz wrote: > For those who never read http://tomcat.apache.org/whichversion.html, or > don't understand it (btw: that page says 7.0.0 is the current version of > the 7.0.x versions), downloading the highest version number available > (7.0.2) might not be such a

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Tomcat Version Numbers > there's a 6.0.0-alpha, and then a 6.0.0, unqualified. > Does that mean that 6.0.0 was stable -- at least after > the alpha stage? Yes. (I missed the unmarked 6.0.0 le

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 8/25/2010 10:30 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: > On 25 August 2010 15:23, Christopher Schultz > wrote: > >> Again, this is partly because I feel a certain sense of order which >> requires releases to be X.0.0. >> >> Why? And by "release" do you

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Crowther
On 25 August 2010 15:23, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Again, this is partly because I feel a certain sense of order which > requires releases to be X.0.0. > > Why? And by "release" do you mean "stable, production-quality releases that we'll stake our reputations on" (in which case almost every x.

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 8/20/2010 12:36 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Tomcat Version Numbers >> >> What was the first version of TC 6.0 that was considered stable? > > Looks like 6.0.

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-22 Thread Mark Thomas
On 20/08/2010 17:36, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> Given that, there's no telling which 7.0 version will be the >> first stable one, right? > > Mark seems to be close to recommending stable, but yes, there's no telling. Ultimately it is a community decision. The more folks that use the betas an

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread André Warnier
Len Popp wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26, Christopher Schultz wrote: It's not that I don't get it... it's that I have a deep-seated need for the release version to be called 7.0.0 for some reason. Call me cynical, but I naturally assume that a major new version will have more bugs (no ma

Re: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread Len Popp
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26, Christopher Schultz wrote: > It's not that I > don't get it... it's that I have a deep-seated need for the release > version to be called 7.0.0 for some reason. Call me cynical, but I naturally assume that a major new version will have more bugs (no matter how much

RE: Tomcat Version Numbers

2010-08-20 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Tomcat Version Numbers > > Will the TC 7.x versions numbers increase like 7.0.3, 7.0.4, > and then at some point it will be considered "stable"? Yes. > That sounds like Tomcat 7.0.0 is not actually a release version, >