Absolutely. It also looks to me that we have more contributors than in the past (many thanks to our community!) and I wonder if it wouldn't be a good thing to release more often. We did some work on speeding up the builds (and we won't stop here :) ), and I am looking into even faster parallel builds, so the release time is becoming less of an issue.
In the past year and a half or so we had predictable once a quarter releases. The exception will be this quarter it seems where we'll have two releases. Camel 2.x doesn't have minor releases (the 3rd digit in the version) and I would think having 2 releases per quarter (every 6 weeks), one major one minor, would probably be a good thing. I will start a DISCUSS thread next week, so probably best is to just think about this (for now) and not hijack this thread. The 2.5.0 release would also be just in time for the next board report due in Sep. Cheers, Hadrian On Aug 27, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Claus Ibsen wrote: > Hi > > Its just 6-7 weeks ago we released Camel 2.4, and we already got > approx 150 tickets resolved on the road for Camel 2.5. > > Camel 2.5 doesn't have a lot of new features, but it does have many > great improvements and bug fixes. So it becomes a great and stable > Camel release. > I have therefore started moving tickets with bigger new features to > Camel 2.6 or even 3.0. > > I suggest that we release Camel 2.5 next month. For example in about 2 > weeks time if that suites our release manager, Hadrian :) > > We are currently having a couple of dependencies to OSGi bundles being > released at SMX. > The vote is currently in progress, and they should be out in central > maven repo next week. > > What remains to be done is to trim the size of camel-web to remove the > unneeded stuff which has crept into it. See another mail on dev about > this. > > If you got any must have features, bug fixes, improvements, then its > time to raise your voice. > > > You can see the current in progress release notes > http://camel.apache.org/camel-250-release.html > > -- > Claus Ibsen > Apache Camel Committer > > Author of Camel in Action: http://www.manning.com/ibsen/ > Open Source Integration: http://fusesource.com > Blog: http://davsclaus.blogspot.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/davsclaus
