Hi,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Russ Teabeault <rteabea...@rallydev.com> wrote:
> I thought I had already sent this to the dev group but I don't see it in
> the archives.  So here it goes:
>
> I really like buildr and the sanity it has brought from using it to replace
> maven.  I would like to see it grow and prosper.  One complaint I have is
> how infrequent the releases are.  It has been nearly a year since the last
> minor patch release and over 5 months since the pre release of the next
> minor patch release.  It seems that if there are one or more bug fixes in
> place then a minor patch release could be done every couple of weeks, every
> week or even every couple of days.  I think this is important to the long
> term adoption and health of the project.  I don't want to have to build and
> host my own version of the gem while waiting months for an official
> release.  Now I understand that the maintainers have lives but doing a
> release should be quick and simple, especially if it is a patch release.
>
> So, is there a good reason that buildr can't be released more often?

I don't believe so. Nothing other than someone stepping up to do the
release I think.

So what needs to be done for the release? Do we have it documented
somewhere? Is it as simple as getting the tests passing and pushing
out changes to rubygems?


-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald

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