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[mailto:cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David
M Williams
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 9:37 AM
To: cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] Is it to late to change our Ganymede
Plans?
Just kidding.
Well, mostly.
I've added an
RC5 "target" to our table at
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede_Simultaneous_Release#Milestones_and_Release_Candidates
It has the
_exact same dates_ as the final release dates in the table.
I added an
explanation in that plan document, but will repeat here:
Note: in the following table, 'RC5' is not a release 'candidate', per
se, but it is to represent 'the' final build. It is called 'RC"
simply a convenient, consistent target to use in Bugzilla, and similar things,
to be able to mark things that are different in the final release build than in
the RC4 build. (The full word, "Ganymede" doesn't make a very good
bugzilla milestone target, since it's a little too inclusive).
'Hopefully' there will 'not by ANY differences' between
RC4, and RC5 ... but, I've heard rumors that some projects are planning on
making doc additions, readme files, etc., so ... this just provides a way that
such changes can be consistently marked, tracked, etc., to better keep us all
informed ... just in case of the unlikely even that there do happen to be differences
in bits between RC4 and the final Released code.
I know this
is dangerous since psychologically some teams may think it is just fine
to make changes after RC4, but this is not the intent. (and would not be ok!) .
It is simply
a "book keeping" mechanism so that if people do need to mark
something for "their final build" such that other projects (and the
community) can query to see "what's change in the final release from
RC4" this hopefully gives a consistent way to document such things, to
aide communication a bit.
Make sense?
Any objections? Suggestions for better ways to communicate those final
differences, if any? Is there a better "target" name to use?
("R" seems a bit too vague, but I'm open).