[hibernate-dev] Regarding release versioning

[Vlad Mihalcea]

I think it's just about what our users expect from a Final release. If we
mark a release with the CR suffix, people will know this might have bugs
and they can help us identify them before we release the Final version.
If there is a backward incompatibility issue, we catch it in the CR release
and, by the time we release Final, we know we got it fixed.

So, with a CR, we just buy more time. Not only that we have OGM and Search
to provide feedback on the latest CR releases, but even the Spring Data
team tries to integrate our latest artifacts into their platform.

Many end-user applications will never try the CR releases, so they will
just go to Final versions which are more stable.

Vlad

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Sanne, you just said it.. the reason you did not test with 5.2 before it
> was released is time.  Me doing a CR release does not change that.  The
> stuff that "bit you" in 5.2 was available for testing for well over a month
> prior to releasing 5.2.  And it's not like 5.2 was released without
> discussion; heck we even pushed it back a few times to get a few extras
> in.  All discussed on the dev list.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:55 AM Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org>
> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> I've also hit some incompatible API changes which I only figured out
>> too late (when attempting to upgrade Hibernate Search).
>>
>> I could have pre-tested snapshot builds but didn't have time for that
>> - and didn't expect 5.2 to be released without a Beta period, or I
>> would have made time for that.
>>
>>
>> On 8 June 2016 at 08:09, Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have seen the frustration from the Spring Data team trying to keep up
>> > with our code changes that break their integrations,
>> > and I was wondering if we should use some Release candidates prior to
>> > releasing a start of a branch, even if it's a minor one.
>> > This way, instead of 5.2.0, we could release 5.2.0.RC1 or something like
>> > that to mark it as an intermediary release that's aimed for early
>> > adopters/integrators.
>> >
>> > Do you think this is feasible or is there something to prevent us from
>> > doing this?
>> >
>> > Vlad
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