[jbosstools-dev] JBoss Tools 4 / JBDS 6 :: M1 will now be called Alpha1

[Rodney Russ]

milestone releases are supported by those rules of versioning:

"That brings us to case number two, which is projects that chose to use milestone releases, instead of the more traditional alpha, beta, ..."

----- "Nick Boldt" <nboldt at redhat.com> wrote:

> In order to:
> 
> a) adhere to the official jboss.org rules for versioning [1] and
> 
> b) to avoid causing anyone who's installed an early milestone (eg., 
> 4.0.0.M2) to have to first UNINSTALL before being able to update to
> our 
> 4.0.0.Beta1 release Eclipse,
> 
> we've renamed the first milestone, M1, to Alpha1.
> 
> This allows us to move through the OSGi ASCII sequence Alpha, Beta,
> CR, 
> Final, and GA, with each more stable milestone able to act as an
> update 
> for the previous.
> 
> * JIRA targets in JBIDE and JBDS have been renamed. Your issues will 
> move automatically to the new version targets. Please update your
> queries.
> 
> * JBoss Tools' parent pom is now 4.0.0.Alpha1 instead of 4.0.0.M1.
> I've 
> updated all the components' root poms in both JBT and JBDS SVN trees
> to 
> use the newly versioned parent pom, and published the new pom to
> nexus.
> 
> See also JBDS-1987 and JBDS-2251.
> 
> [1] https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBossProjectVersioning
> 
> -- 
> Nick Boldt :: JBoss by Red Hat
> Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio
> http://nick.divbyzero.com