Re: about a new Archive_Tar release

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Michiel Rook <michiel.rook@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been able to close a few bugs since taking over maintenance of > Archive_Tar, preparing a new release is something that has slipped through > the cracks unfortunately (sorry about that!) > > Now that I have some time to spend on that, I'm thinking about marking the > next release 'beta'. Even though I'm pretty confident about my fixes, > Archive_Tar is an essential package. > > Any thoughts? > > regards, > > Michiel > Hey Michiel, Releasing an alpha or beta is certainly an option that's up to you, as the maintainer. If you've made any changes that aren't *strictly* bug fixes, then an X.Y release number bump, and an alpha or beta stability, are certainly the way to go. Whenever I do an X.Y bump for a stable package, I typically do release at least one alpha and one RC beta before a final stable. It's not *customary* to mark an X.Y.Z bump as beta if it's part of an already stable X.Y, but I don't think there are any *guidelines* against it. I think you'll be fine to do so. -- CRB