Getting away from SNAPSHOTS! (Was Re: [jboss-dev] Re: A few more AOP/tmp failures to go)

[Ales Justin]

We definitely need something like this.
As this current scenario clearly showed it.

We (as in MC) have just too many components to make them play nicely
to be releasing new official versions for every fix/update made.

And it's sometimes only the Hudons runs or full TCK that show something 
went wrong.

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Eclipse's recommended versioning scheme allows for this.
> We use it with great success in jboss tools.
> 
> x.y.z.qualifier-typetimestamp
> 
> Nightly builds: hibernatetools-3.0.0.GA-N200902130014-H1427
> Release builds: hibernatetools-3.0.0.GA-R200902130014-H1427
> 
> Makes it all perfectly ordered and cutting edge users can go from 
> nightly updates to the actual GA release auotmatically.
> Gives long names but I'm fine with that since the order brings more 
> benefits.