Satheesh
On 3/30/06, David W. Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is there a reason a snapshot needs to have release notes? That seems
like unnecessary overhead. A snapshot is just that -- a quick drop of
the latest, right? Or is there more to it than that.
I was actually hoping nightly builds could be made available for
download, whatever happened to that?
David
Rick Hillegas wrote:
> I think monthly would be a good interval. I think the Norway team has
> the machinery to generate full sets of jars, including documentation, on
> demand. From a previous thread, I got the impression that turning one of
> these productions into a "snapshot" involves bolting on some interim
> Release Notes, explaining the delta from the previous snapshot. Does
> that sound adequate or do you think a snapshot is fancier?
>
> Seems to me we have to balance some factors:
>
> 1) The cost of generating a snapshot. For me that cost is largely a
> matter of compiling the delta notes. Other people may incur other expenses.
> 2) The value of getting early feedback.
> 3) The cost of premature feedback on half-baked code.
>
> Regards,
> -Rick
>
> Daniel John Debrunner wrote:
>
>> Rick Hillegas wrote:
>>
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>>
>>> I need to push back the freeze date for the JDBC4 work. The following
>>> issues have created more work than I originally estimated:
>>>
>>> 1) Upgrade issues raised by Kathey, tracked in DERBY-1107
>>> 2) Missing method signatures, tracked by DERBY-1146
>>> 3) The continued evolution of the JDBC4 spec itself
>>> 4) Some work on forwarding PooledConnection methods, which needs
>>> analysis and description in JIRA
>>>
>>> I do not have a new freeze date yet, but I expect it will fall in May,
>>> still comfortably far away from an autumn release date for 10.2. I will
>>> let the community know when I have a new freeze date.
>>>
>>> At this time, I'd like to ask other 10.2 contributors if the original
>>> freeze date of April 7 still looks reasonable. If not, please let us
>>> know. If you need to slip your freeze date and you can estimate a better
>>> date, please let us know that too.
>>>
>>> Slipping the JDBC4 freeze date will affect the completeness of the alpha
>>> snapshot we want to post in May. As Ole noted,
>>> http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/DerbyJDK16/builds/ holds
>>> current snapshots of the raw JDBC4-capable Derby.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Errrmmm, what freeze date? No release means no freeze date until a new
>> release starts up. A snapshot can go up at any time, we should probably
>> put them up fairly frequently, monthly?
>>
>> Dan.
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