[jboss-dev] Next AS minor version?

[Aaron Walker]

Aren't they all development releases now you've got the EAP's ;)

Development releases would be nice if you wanted to include preview  
technology that may in fact not make it into the next stable release.

--Aaron

On 03/12/2008, at 10:07 PM, Bela Ban wrote:

> Go for 5.1
>
> Dimitris Andreadis wrote:
>> Before branching AS5 (Branch_5_0) I was wondering what would most  
>> people would prefer/think about the next minor JBossAS release.
>>
>> - Continue with the even release number legacy, i.e. 5.2.0
>>
>> - Scrap the legacy numbering, i.e. go for 5.1.0
>>
>> Cheers
>> /Dimitris
>>
>> PS
>> AFAIR, the original idea was that odd minor numbers (e.g. 5.1)  
>> would indicate development releases, while even numbers (5.2)  
>> stable production releases. This didn't worked out quite well and  
>> the code always targeted the next production release with Betas/RCs  
>> used for pre-production releases. Who would want to test drive a  
>> purely development release, anyway?
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