Re: 5.4 Alpha?

2010/8/10 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de> > On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 16:20 +0200, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > Is LTS really something we need to provide? Seems to me like this is > > something the linux vendors take care of for the most part. Of course > > this leaves windows, OSX (and maybe some others). > > Well, I don't see it as loooooooooooooooooooooooooong term support, but > rather as way to enable quick feature cycles, so that feature releases > can move faster than anybody can upgrade to them (ok, that's a bit too > fast the, but hope you get the point), while new features can get in > production sooner, where wanted. > > We could also use the names "feature preview release" and "stable > release"(=lts) ... which would bring us close to MySQL's model and their > confusing version numbering (MySQL 5.1 is the stable there, then MySQL > 5.4 was announced as preview, now MySQL 5.5 is the current preview > release, neither 5.4 nor 5.5 are "stable", "GA", though) > > johanne > > > they started to use milestone release-s. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-release-model.html <http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-release-model.html> Tyrael