On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:51:26 -0500, Eddie Bush wrote: > As much as I agree with your sentiment (about us eating what we > cook), it's decidedly easier for some of us to actually stay > bleeding edge than others. > > Whatever I do at home may be bleeding edge, but once I step in the > office ... well, I haven't pushed very hard for bleeding edge, but > I'd like to acquire a bit more tenure at my current position before > I try to "aggressively encourage" usage of bleeding-edge stuff -- > irrespective of the amount of faith I have in it.
Agreed. I abstained from the Struts 1.2.4 vote for the same reason. But since a release is a majority vote, with a quorum of positive three, and we don't all have to be ready to attest that it's GA. The important thing is that those who do vote +1, are doing so because their own teams already use it. -Ted. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:30 PM Subject: Re: When is a release ready for primetime (was [VOTE] HTTPD ...) On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:05:10 -0500, Joe Germuska wrote: > > What I do think we've been doing wrong is rushing to vote on a > release right after it is cut. As I noted before, from the > framework we've laid out, I would consider it totally normal for us > to change (upward) the status of a release from test/alpha to beta > to GA. In fact, I might even say that once we verify that a > release is not fundamentally flawed, we should have a mandatory > cooling off period before it would be appropriate to make a vote. Something that is mentioned in the HTTP guidelines is that before certifying a release GA, "... the group has liked to see approximately 48-72 hours of usage in production to certify that the release is functional in the real world." Personally, I think this would be a good guideline for PMC members to follow. If you vote +1 for GA, it should imply that you are already using the distribution in production yourself, and have done so for several business days. Of course, a +1 also implies that you will support the release, as always. If we don't have the courage to use a distribution in our own work, then we should not be advising others to do the same :) -Ted. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
