Projects
This page is dedicated to software projects under development by Red Mars Consulting. The projects listed will be at various stages of completion. The information below explains the development and versioning. If you want to skip the gory details and get to the projects, quick links are available on this page.

Release Stages
Alpha
Alpha products are considered to be in the very early stages of development. You may use them but do so at your own risk and we'd adivsed for them to not be run in a production environment.

Beta
Beta products are considered feature complete and near ready for release. Beta products may still contain some bugs and it is the intention of this phase to identify and rectify those bugs.

Release Candidate
Release Candidate products are ready for release and are considered near final. The purpose of a Release Candidate is to identify and eliminate major bugs only.

Final
Products marked as Final are fully tested and considered available for general use. They are feature complete and only bug fixes will be applied to Final Products.

How our versioning works
To help identify what stage our products are in we use the following naming and numbering standard.
An Alpha release is identified by a dot release. i.e. 0.1 When a new features are released the dot release is incremented i.e. 0.2. Alpha Bug fixes are identified as sub releases. For example 1.2.1 is bug fix 1 for Alpha version 1.2.
A Beta release is identified at the whole number level i.e. 1.0b or 2.0b. Bug fixes at the Beta stage are identified as a sub number after the b. For instance 1.0b1 is the first bug fix.
A Release candidate is identified as such 1.0rc1. Which is the first release candidate for 1.0. If further release candidates are required due to major bugs then they are sequential. i.e. 1.0rc2.
The Final product is identified as simple the whole release number with no modifications. i.e. 1.0. Bug Fixes at the Final stage are identified like this 1.0.4. This example identifies there has been 4 bug fix releases since the Final 1.0 release.