Stanley Bradbury wrote:
As stated in my comment on the TERRITORY_BASED collation problem at:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2896#action_12513395
This problem greatly limits the use of TERRITORY_BASED collation and
for the sake of that feature needs to be fixed quickly. Rather than
hold up the release along with all the other features and fixes I am
proposing a 10.3.2.x release be planned for 4-6 weeks following
10.3.2.1 (assuming this is approved next week). This release would
correct DERBY-2896 and any other problems that might be reported and
backported in the early days of 10.3.
Does this sound like a good plan or would producing a 'fix' release be
a lot more work/testing than stopping 10.3.1.2 and waiting for this to
be fixed? I figure it best to hash this out now rather than waiting
until the day of the vote.
I think a 10.3.2 release that includes a number of bugfixes that do not
make it for 10.3.1 would be a good thing. The motivation in the
community to spend time on fixing these bugs will decide how useful it
is, I guess. If a significant number of bugs are fixed, then the work
involved in creating a 10.3.2 release will seem worth it.
In principle I think the 10.3.1 release should be judged independently
of whether there will be a bugfix release shortly after or not. I don't
think a future bugfix release should influence whether a bug is a
blocker or not for this release.
Vemund