After further discussion with Max, Nick and Jeff we agreed to use M1, M2, M3, etc suffixes instead of S114, S115 or Alpha1, Beta1 etc in fix versions in JIRA, pom.xml's, etc.
Sorry for all these changes and confusion they may cause but we are still trying to find the best way to version our stuff.

So, our fix versions will look something like 4.4.1.M1, 4.4.1.M2, 4.4.1.GA, 4.5.0.M1, 4.5.0.M2, 4.5.0.GA etc.

If there is no any objections then I would like to ask Nick to go ahead and fix all the relevant places where we use that suffixes for our versions.

On 06/22/2016 10:54 AM, Nick Boldt wrote:

b) sprint-based fixversions

Because we no longer need to do the waterfall method of Alpha -> Beta
-> CR -> Final, we will now start defining fixversions in JIRA using
the sprint numbers, S116, S117, S118, etc. I've for the moment left
the .Final and .GA fixversions in place for two reasons:

* because we need .GA in order to allocate issues to Target Releases
in the JBDS JIRA

* because this lets you differentiate between things completed for the
Final/GA release vs. things simply completed in a sprint.

This change has already been done, in order to see the impact on
downstream processes like jiralint.

I've also renamed the sprints so that they include their start/end
dates, rather than just "June 2016" because I figured that was more
meaningful. Dates format is yyyy/mm/dd - mm/dd. You can see this on a
board such as https://issues.jboss.org/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=3410&view=planning.nodetail&quickFilter=10746

ACTION REQUIRED: Nothing.

Ref: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-22619

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