I think Joe has raised a valid point here... Providing ongoing unstable
builds is quite useful. However, if there is no simple link to them
from the Geronimo website then how will users find them?
Why not add a simple link to the unstable builds (or at least the
location of the most recent 1.1 build) on the Geronimo main download page?
This will encourage user participation and feedback for 1.1..
-Dave-
Joe Bohn wrote:
I agree with everyone else that it is really great to have these
unstable builds being produced and posted on a regular basis! It will
help encourage users to pick up the latest more quickly and provide us
with quicker feedback.
How is it expected that users will find these unstable builds? Is there
some way to get to the unstable builds from the geronimo web site? I
think more people would find it and use it if there was a link from the
downloads page to http://cvs.apache.org/dist/geronimo/unstable/ .
One more question: How long will these builds "hang around"? I see
that there are still builds from 1.0 out there. Just a nit - but it
would be nice if we could put the most recent build at the top of the list.
Joe
David Blevins wrote:
All,
I've revived our script that creates unstable builds. Further, I've
hooked it up to run every Wednesday at 6am PST. I chose Wednesday as
it gives developers a couple days into the week to try and get
features in that they'd like people to try out. It also gives a
couple days in the week for users to give feedback.
The goal is to have a nice steady drum beat of content reaching the
community to add more iterations to what is inherently an iterative
process. More iterations means more interactions which means a
healthier community economy. I could spend forever counting out the
benefits to the community and overall quality of the software
produced/consumed.
Here is the info for the very latest build:
Geronimo 1.1-405734 - May 10, 2006
http://cvs.apache.org/dist/geronimo/unstable/1.1-405734/
geronimo-1.1-405734-src.tar.gz
geronimo-1.1-405734-src.zip
geronimo-jetty-j2ee-1.1-405734.tar.gz
geronimo-jetty-j2ee-1.1-405734.zip
geronimo-jetty-minimal-1.1-405734.tar.gz
geronimo-jetty-minimal-1.1-405734.zip
geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.1-405734.tar.gz
geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.1-405734.zip
geronimo-tomcat-minimal-1.1-405734.tar.gz
geronimo-tomcat-minimal-1.1-405734.zip
Changelog:
http://opensource.atlassian.com/confluence/oss/display/GERONIMO/Latest
+Unstable
The changelog is automatically generated along with the unstable
build, so keep an eye on that page for future updates!
All the best,
David
