Stable, Final, Release candidate or what? Topic is solved

[TomasA]

I'm a little bit confused about what’s final, release candidate, beta version and so on. After looking through the extensions, as example Anjel at
http://extensions.joomla.org/component/ ... Itemid,35/ It seems to be a stable version, but looking further I found that it is called ANJEL 0.6.1 Final.

I’m new to Joomla community and has planes to migrate my sites to Joomla. If so, I’m not interested in implement non stable extensions in my productive sites. Compare with an other option of CMS – Typo3 – where they clearly announce if the extensions are stable or not.
Is it not possible to state roles in Joomla extension community concerning versions of stability or not in the extensions?

/ Tomas

[mjaz]

I agree. It should either be more obvious if an extension isn't stable, or there should be a rule about against submitting unstable extensions. I think I prefer the latter, as it will make the directory more useable and less like the projects list at the forge.

[TomasA]

I have always belived that the first stable official version of any software are v1.0.0

If you look at the Version Convention i Joomla Developer Roadmap you can read as follows:

Version Convention
Joomla! release versioning follows a numerical convention comprised of three numbers: Major, Minor and Maintenance.  The version is presented in the major.minor[.maintenance] format.

Major Release Number (X.1.1)
An increment of the major number generally indicates a major rework or rewrite of the code base.
May be completely incompatible with prior major releases.

Minor Release Number (1.X.1)
An increment of the minor number usually indicates a significant change to functionality or architecture.
Moderate to high level of backward compatibility with previous minor increments.

Maintenance Release Number (1.1.X)
An increment of the maintenance number usually indicates bug fixing within the minor release and possibly small enhancements and limited new features.
Fully backward compatible with previous maintenance increments

I really would like to hear any software/extension developer explain their point of view of why calling a minor release number Final.

/ Tomas

[ivo.apostolov]

I think, extension owners MUST be forced to write the status in the version field.

[mjaz]

It could be a simple drop-down list. Extensions that are stable could go to the top of the list. That could be an extra incentive for 3PD's to finish their extension.