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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 13:01:55 +0100
From: Sam Weisberg <samweisberg@openmailbox.org>
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Subject: Re: Question about 3.5.0 stability and versioning
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Flavio,

thanks for your reply.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the 3.5.0 release in 
itself can be considered stable in terms of software quality, but the 
feature set may change during the 3.5 maintenance cycle? If so, is it 
likely that 3.5 releases will introduce incompatible changes in terms of 
ensemble and client-server combination?
Also, would you say that that 3.5.0 and it's new features can be used in 
production?

Cheers,
Sam

On 2015-03-21 12:29, Flavio Junqueira wrote:
> 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