[wildfly-dev] clarification on why Wildfly versions are increasing so quickly

[arjan tijms]

Hi,

I'm not affiliated with JBoss or Red Hat, just a user and therefor not
able to give any "official answer", but as a mere user I'm not
bothered much by this. WildFly versions are just milestones on the
road to the next EAP version anyway.

So whether you have {EAP 6, m1, m2, m3, m4, EAP 7}, or {EAP 6, wf8,
wf9, wf10, EAP 7} doesn't make a lot of difference to me.

>From another point of view, Chrome has been been updating major
versions for every small thing for a long time now, where before
browsers used to be on some major version like forever and incremented
minor. It doesn't mean Chrome is making larger leaps, it's just a
numbering for which no universal rules have really been set.

E.g. Vendor X's version 10.12.Alpha-1.a.3 may be comparable to
Vendor's Y version 0.53. Hard to compare.

Kind regards,
Arjan Tijms





On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Karl Pietrzak <kap4020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> First off, kudos to everyone for a great product!
>
> Secondly, I'm wondering if someone could explain to me the significance of
> the quick succession of Wildfly version upgrades: from 8 -> 9 -> 10 (soon).
>
> It seemed like we were on JBoss 7.x for a long time, and now the top link at
> http://wildfly.org/downloads/ is actually the Wildfly 10.x beta.
>
> Does this represent:
> 1. a sudden increase in contributions and feature work?
> 2. shift in marketing (i.e., no underlying tech changes)
> 3. something else
>
> Our concern is that this represents some instability / internal dynamics /
> change in policy that would encourage us to visit other app servers.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
> Karl
>
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