Hi Sam,
The label "alpha" refers to an alpha release of the 3.5 branch, not an alpha version of 3.5.0.
We typically only have bug fixes for the minor releases of a branch, and for 3.5, we have
used alpha to say that the release is indeed unstable and that major changes could come with
later releases of the branch.
I suppose we could have done 3.5.0-alpha, 3.5.0-beta, 3.5.0 or some similar sequence, but
that isn't the current thinking afaict.
-Flavio
> On 21 Mar 2015, at 09:08, Sam Weisberg <samweisberg@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> I am a little confused about the versioning of the 3.5 release branch.
> When looking at the homepage, it sais the 3.5 release "is alpha quality" and it is suffixed
with a -alpha tag.
>
> When I first looked at the github releases[1] however, it seams to indicate that there
has already been a 3.5 release candidate and a 3.5 release.
> In addition, the devs seem to be gearing up for a 3.5.1 release[2], which would be curious
if there was not even a stable 3.5.0 release.
> There is also no longer an active milestone for 3.5.0 in Jira.
>
> Considering all that, I have a bit of trouble understanding the implications of the -alpha
suffix of the 3.5.0 release.
> Can the 3.5.0 release be considered stable and is just not widely used?
> I would appreciate it if someone could clarify this for me a bit.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/releases
> [2] https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/zookeeper-dev/201502.mbox/%3CCANLc_9JktxbnYuyW2EbvFEcRoaZWMsPf38YdoM=5JLWLUsZDNA@mail.gmail.com%3E
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