On May 11, 2006, at 6:01 AM, 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.
Definitely a good start. It takes group participation to really take
advantage.
How is it expected that users will find these unstable builds?
We can link the Latest Unstable wiki page from the website. We can
also mention them when we fix problems, "I submitted/comitted a patch
for this and it will be available in next Wednesday's build! (post
link)" Or when people have problems building, "Give the latest
unstable a try and see how it goes. (post link)"
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/ .
Absolutely.
One more question: How long will these builds "hang around"? I
see that there are still builds from 1.0 out there.
The script arbitrarily keeps 14 past builds -- can be whatever number
we choose.
Just a nit - but it would be nice if we could put the most recent
build at the top of the list.
Sure. Most people don't notice that page is sortable. We can link
it that way for convenience.
http://cvs.apache.org/dist/geronimo/unstable/?C=M;O=D
-David
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
--
Joe Bohn
joe.bohn at earthlink.net
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he
cannot lose." -- Jim Elliot
