Alphas and betas: really?

[Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>]

One of the quirks of the Maven community, as seen from the outside, is
the tendency to call things 'alpha' and 'beta'.

I think that this is confusing. Most people assume that an 'alpha' has
significant instability, and should be used only by the few and the
brave. Even a 'beta' would generally raise qualms about production.
Yet we have things that drift along with those terms in their version
numbers for years on end, and we even sometimes make the superpom
default to them.

In my view, anyone releasing something with one of these 'aged' alpha
or beta versions should ask themselves if there's any good reason
*not* to just declare '1.0'.

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Re: Alphas and betas: really?

[Kristian Rosenvold <kr...@zenior.no>]

I think we sort-of decided that a couple of years ago and have managed
to get rid of quite a few. Just go 1.0..



Den 28. mai 2012 kl. 15:22 skrev Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>:

> One of the quirks of the Maven community, as seen from the outside, is
> the tendency to call things 'alpha' and 'beta'.
>
> I think that this is confusing. Most people assume that an 'alpha' has
> significant instability, and should be used only by the few and the
> brave. Even a 'beta' would generally raise qualms about production.
> Yet we have things that drift along with those terms in their version
> numbers for years on end, and we even sometimes make the superpom
> default to them.
>
> In my view, anyone releasing something with one of these 'aged' alpha
> or beta versions should ask themselves if there's any good reason
> *not* to just declare '1.0'.
>
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Re: Alphas and betas: really?

[Chris Graham <ch...@gmail.com>]

Agreed. I've have a few managers express concern about the usage of the
term 'alpha' and 'beta' etc.

-Chris

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Benson Margulies <bi...@gmail.com>wrote:

> One of the quirks of the Maven community, as seen from the outside, is
> the tendency to call things 'alpha' and 'beta'.
>
> I think that this is confusing. Most people assume that an 'alpha' has
> significant instability, and should be used only by the few and the
> brave. Even a 'beta' would generally raise qualms about production.
> Yet we have things that drift along with those terms in their version
> numbers for years on end, and we even sometimes make the superpom
> default to them.
>
> In my view, anyone releasing something with one of these 'aged' alpha
> or beta versions should ask themselves if there's any good reason
> *not* to just declare '1.0'.
>
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
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