[xwiki-dev] [VOTE] Change name of releases from Betas and RCs to Milestones

[Ludovic Dubost]

+1

How about keeping RC for the end ?

Vincent Massol a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose changing our naming of releases to use Milestones 
> instead of betas and alphas.
>
> The main reason is that we're practicing time boxing and agile 
> development. This means that each release gets new 
> features/improvements. This is the main point of agile development: 
> release pieces of working features at each release. Betas suggest that 
> the release is almost finished in term of features. On Monday we've 
> planned to release 1.1 Beta 1. However it's no feature complete as 
> we've planned 3 betas and 2 rcs and we plan to add features in the betas.
>
> Thus I believe we should use the word "Milestone" which is better 
> suited for our style of development (Note: Milestone was suggest by 
> Sergiu, I'm just borrowing his idea here ;-)).
>
> So I'd suggest to change our plan to be:
>
> * 1.1 M1 - 28th of May
> * 1.1 M2 - 18th Of June
> * 1.1 M3 - 9th of July
> * 1.1 M4 - 30th of July
> * 1.1 M5 - 20th of August
> * 1.1 Final - 3rd of September
>
> We only need to agree that M4 and M5 should be focused on bug fixing 
> and not introduce new features (or smallish ones only). This is 
> because we're not yet quite ready with our automated tests. If we had 
> a strong suite of tests we wouldn't need to do that and this is the 
> goal we need to achieve. So I hope we'll see more tests written in M1 
> to M3.
>
> Here's my +1 to this new name.
>
> Please cast your votes.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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