On 12/11/06, Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please download and test-drive the 10.2.2.0 candidate, then vote on whether to accept it as a Derby release. The candidate lives at:http://people.apache.org/~rhillegas/10.2.2.0/ The polls close at 5:00 pm San Francisco time next Monday, December 18.
Verified all the signatures, checked the contents of each distribution, and ran tests on a couple of platforms (and yes, I copied the test jars into the same dir as the engine/net jars when running tests). Everything looked good. The contents of tools/jdbc4 are obviously no longer needed, but can be removed in some future release. I agree with Dan that the release notes' 'Issues' section is somewhat confusing, or at least confusingly titled. I think that maybe what is needed is an 'outstanding quality issues' vs. 'intentional changes in behavior' list. It seems to me that most of the content of the 'Issues' section are intentional, (hopefully-)positive changes in behavior of the engine, client, or tools. Calling these 'Issues' is at least a misnomer, and at worst misdirection, possibly leading a user to think that they may need to code around what are actually positive changes in Derby's behavior. Since the release notes may be the only piece of documentation long-time Derby users bother to review, it would be good to polish up these little bits of language to be more accurate. But, not worth holding up this release, anyway. So, on the whole, looks great. My vote: +1 andrew
