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From: Chris Conroy <cconroy@squareup.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 15:15:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: Question about 3.5.0 stability and versioning
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On a related note: intention to cut a 3.5.1-alpha release was announced in
early February yet it was only just released. This seems like a very long
window for an alpha quality release. Why not just cut a new point release
rather than wait for all of the minor issues to be resolved?

This long timeframe was a bit frustrating since I was waiting on the
release to see if it fixes the looped NPE issue that we hit quite
frequently in development. Eventually I gave up and cut an internal release
for our users.

I was a bit surprised to see multiple alpha release candidates. Also, the
release candidates are tagged with the same version of 3.5.1-alpha instead
of e.g. 3.5.1-alpha-rc1 which means all of our maven/nexus caches won't be
able to pick up the official release without being manually cleared! Could
we please tag the release candidates with different versions in the future?

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:08 AM, 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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