Pre-release naming convention

[tsalo]

Summary

Continues from #568 (comment), but separated into its own issue for posterity. We have two competing naming conventions for unstable/pre-releases: alpha (X.X.Xa[0-9+]) and release candidate (X.X.Xrc[0-9+]). In our release history, we have two cases of each: 0.0.5rc1 and 0.0.5rc2 for release candidate and 0.0.9a0 and 0.0.9a1 for alpha.

Next Steps

Please vote 🎉 for the release candidate system and 🚀 for the alpha system.

[jbteves]

We can't react with those emojis, unfortunately on a few are supported. I'll put two comments below and people can thumbs-up for them.

[jbteves]

🕯 a[0+]

[jbteves]

🔤 rc[1+]

[tsalo]

Ugh so frustrating!!!! I'll change the vote-mojis then. Nvm your system's good.

@jbteves by the way you switched the emojis.

EDIT: I went ahead and changed the vote-mojis just to make the vote more obvious.

[emdupre]

It seems that they can coexist according to semvar:

1.0.0-alpha < 1.0.0-alpha.1 < 1.0.0-alpha.beta < 1.0.0-beta < 1.0.0-beta.2 < 1.0.0-beta.11 < 1.0.0-rc.1 < 1.0.0.

Still, to reflect common usage I'd agree to adopt one or the other. My vote is for rc, but it's not a strong opinion.

[jbteves]

Oops, sorry, I missed that @tsalo

I'm fine with either, but do think we need to pick one.

[tsalo]

@emdupre, whoa.... yeah let's not have that intense a development cycle. Agreed about adopting one or the other. How about we close the polls on this (since it's not that big of a deal) on Friday?

[emdupre]

How about we close the polls on Friday

Sounds reasonable to me !

[tsalo]

Okay, the polls have officially closed as of 10:31 pm EDT on July 13. Yes, this is 52 days after when we said the poll would close, but, in fairness, I forgot.

Anywayyy... we have a majority vote for the RC system, and we shall adopt it henceforth.