Hi Rick, The proposed schedule seems fine to me. Is there actually a release candidate to test at this point? Or are we still in the mode of testing things built from source ourselves?
I didn't see any obvious flaws on the release notes page, thanks for putting it together. It strikes me that there are, broadly, two categories of people who will experience Derby 10.15: 1) Existing Derby users, who have figured out how to use the current scripts, tools, jars, etc. 2) New users, who have never used Derby before. New users, I think, will just start with the regular documentation, and won't need a lot of help from the release notes. So I think that the release notes should be sort of phrased as: "here's what changes with Java 9 and the modularized Derby packages; and here's what is still the same as it was before. " Hopefully that's useful feedback. I think that, once I start really getting some hands-on time with Derby 10.15 and Java 9, I might have a little bit more feedback. thanks, bryan On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 2:41 PM Rick Hillegas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have published preliminary release notes for the 10.15.1 release > (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/db/derby/code/trunk/RELEASE-NOTES.html?view=co) > and proposed a schedule for vetting the release. See > https://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/DerbyTenFifteenOneRelease Please let > me know how I can improve these release notes. > > Thanks, > -Rick >
